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... pleasure than toil . He set about it without reluctance , and finished it without weariness . He did not need to pump from a deep well : the spring poured forth of its own accord . When he turned his attention to a topic , his thoughts ...
... pleasure than toil . He set about it without reluctance , and finished it without weariness . He did not need to pump from a deep well : the spring poured forth of its own accord . When he turned his attention to a topic , his thoughts ...
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... pleasurable sentiment associated with other days . We hastened out of the village into the country . The farms were there ; they are real estate ; they stay , and the homes in which the stalwart old farmers lived were unchanged , except ...
... pleasurable sentiment associated with other days . We hastened out of the village into the country . The farms were there ; they are real estate ; they stay , and the homes in which the stalwart old farmers lived were unchanged , except ...
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... pleasure to rehearse them in the hear- ing of one who now ministers to the children and grand- children of those who were my parishioners . In one case the record ran thus : was ex- amined and ordered to be admitted to the communion on ...
... pleasure to rehearse them in the hear- ing of one who now ministers to the children and grand- children of those who were my parishioners . In one case the record ran thus : was ex- amined and ordered to be admitted to the communion on ...
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... pleasure . Blessed are they who do his will : giving themselves and their possessions to Him who died for us and rose again . To his name be praise . BURNING UP OLD SERMONS . THE Rev. Dr. Duryea , 52 IRENEUS LETTERS .
... pleasure . Blessed are they who do his will : giving themselves and their possessions to Him who died for us and rose again . To his name be praise . BURNING UP OLD SERMONS . THE Rev. Dr. Duryea , 52 IRENEUS LETTERS .
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... pleasure to take a text on which he had never writ- ten , and build on it a fresh discourse in no respect inferior to those of his early manhood . He brought forth fruit in his old age . He spoke and wrote with the same energy at sev ...
... pleasure to take a text on which he had never writ- ten , and build on it a fresh discourse in no respect inferior to those of his early manhood . He brought forth fruit in his old age . He spoke and wrote with the same energy at sev ...
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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.