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... happiness of human kind ! For there is no express stirring up of faculties to meditate her high and heavenly strains- nor formal sequestration of the mind from all other concerns on purpose for her special enter- tainment nor pause of ...
... happiness of human kind ! For there is no express stirring up of faculties to meditate her high and heavenly strains- nor formal sequestration of the mind from all other concerns on purpose for her special enter- tainment nor pause of ...
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... happiness , and the murderer of enjoy- ment : and eyed askance , as the remembrancer of death and the very messenger of hell ! Oh ! if books had but tongues to speak their wrongs , then might this book well exclaim- Hear O 6 PREPARATION ...
... happiness , and the murderer of enjoy- ment : and eyed askance , as the remembrancer of death and the very messenger of hell ! Oh ! if books had but tongues to speak their wrongs , then might this book well exclaim- Hear O 6 PREPARATION ...
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... happiness and heroism , closet- ing me with sickness and infirmity ; ye make not of me , nor use me for your guide to wisdom and prudence , but press me into your list of duties , and withdraw me to a mere corner of your time ; and most ...
... happiness and heroism , closet- ing me with sickness and infirmity ; ye make not of me , nor use me for your guide to wisdom and prudence , but press me into your list of duties , and withdraw me to a mere corner of your time ; and most ...
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... happiness grow dull ; but this of listening to His voice who plants the sense of duty , bestows privilege , honour and happiness , and our every other faculty , is before all these , and is equalled by nothing but the stubbornest ...
... happiness grow dull ; but this of listening to His voice who plants the sense of duty , bestows privilege , honour and happiness , and our every other faculty , is before all these , and is equalled by nothing but the stubbornest ...
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... and restraints upon the freedom of our conduct . Such being the hereditary bondage of all ages and of all nations , those are the happiest who have had the wisest and most virtuous ancestors , to 54 OBEYING THE ORACLES OF GOD .
... and restraints upon the freedom of our conduct . Such being the hereditary bondage of all ages and of all nations , those are the happiest who have had the wisest and most virtuous ancestors , to 54 OBEYING THE ORACLES OF GOD .
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Page 355 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Page 505 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 291 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be...
Page 354 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 291 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 195 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God is for ever and ever ; a sceptre of .righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Page 195 - God, the first-born of every creature, by whom all things were created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him ; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist,
Page 188 - His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Page 322 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 425 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.