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... hour of contrition , renders to the perfect type of moral excellence which the gos- pel brings before it . For it is to be considered that the sorrow and self - abasement which the " manifestation of the truth " calls forth in the ...
... hour of contrition , renders to the perfect type of moral excellence which the gos- pel brings before it . For it is to be considered that the sorrow and self - abasement which the " manifestation of the truth " calls forth in the ...
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... hours still beside you , breathing the air of heaven into your solitude , and by his converse , elevating thought , enkindling devotion , and causing the whole soul to swell with high resolves and holy aspirations . What a boon were ...
... hours still beside you , breathing the air of heaven into your solitude , and by his converse , elevating thought , enkindling devotion , and causing the whole soul to swell with high resolves and holy aspirations . What a boon were ...
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... hours are overshadowed as by the vague sense of a coming danger . There is a fever- ishness and unreality in all his ... hour in unreal splendour , rather than be at the pains to examine into his embarrassed affairs ; or of the hapless ...
... hours are overshadowed as by the vague sense of a coming danger . There is a fever- ishness and unreality in all his ... hour in unreal splendour , rather than be at the pains to examine into his embarrassed affairs ; or of the hapless ...
Page 54
... hours contract so insensibly , the chilly feeling infuses itself by such slight increases into the air , the yellow tint creeps so gradually over the foliage , because autumn thus frequently softens and shades away into winter by grada ...
... hours contract so insensibly , the chilly feeling infuses itself by such slight increases into the air , the yellow tint creeps so gradually over the foliage , because autumn thus frequently softens and shades away into winter by grada ...
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... hour foresee , or with certainty pronounce , what its course will be ? Sometimes breathing in softness , sometimes rush- ing in storm ; now gently fanning the summer fields , or wandering with scarcely perceptible movement over the ...
... hour foresee , or with certainty pronounce , what its course will be ? Sometimes breathing in softness , sometimes rush- ing in storm ; now gently fanning the summer fields , or wandering with scarcely perceptible movement over the ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...