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... nature and writings . Dr. Prime was no ascetic , seeing only the hard and gloomy side of life and religion , but at home with his Lord and Master at a wedding in Cana , where joy was unconfined , as well as tender and sympathetic at a ...
... nature and writings . Dr. Prime was no ascetic , seeing only the hard and gloomy side of life and religion , but at home with his Lord and Master at a wedding in Cana , where joy was unconfined , as well as tender and sympathetic at a ...
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... nature or treatment of great questions or fundamental principles . When a principle was at stake he set his face like a flint , and , like Athanasius , would stand against the world . He would go two miles with you any time out of ...
... nature or treatment of great questions or fundamental principles . When a principle was at stake he set his face like a flint , and , like Athanasius , would stand against the world . He would go two miles with you any time out of ...
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... natural characteristics , partly to the peculiar circumstances of his career . The first time I ever saw him was in the year 1841 or 1842 , when he was one of the CHARACTER AND LIFE - WORK OF dr . prime . 19 Character and Life-work.
... natural characteristics , partly to the peculiar circumstances of his career . The first time I ever saw him was in the year 1841 or 1842 , when he was one of the CHARACTER AND LIFE - WORK OF dr . prime . 19 Character and Life-work.
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... natural order of development . was to clothe them in appropriate words . facility and rapidity , and , strange to say , with exceeding ac- curacy , so that often in a score of pages there would be no need , on a careful review , of ...
... natural order of development . was to clothe them in appropriate words . facility and rapidity , and , strange to say , with exceeding ac- curacy , so that often in a score of pages there would be no need , on a careful review , of ...
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... natural vivacity of his spirit . If ever a man knew , experi- mentally , the difference between work and worry , it ... Nature and grace concurred to produce this happy result . His sunny temperament inclined him to look upon the bright ...
... natural vivacity of his spirit . If ever a man knew , experi- mentally , the difference between work and worry , it ... Nature and grace concurred to produce this happy result . His sunny temperament inclined him to look upon the bright ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.