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... doubt not , I here put down a common experience , although ' No compound of this earthly ball , Is like another all in all ' -in any effort to revive the past , I am generally tantalized by images of the most trivial things of the ...
... doubt not , I here put down a common experience , although ' No compound of this earthly ball , Is like another all in all ' -in any effort to revive the past , I am generally tantalized by images of the most trivial things of the ...
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... doubt , where all is double ; Where wise men are not strong ; Where comfort turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer ... doubts be dumb : Let all words be mild : All strifes be reconcil'd : All pains beguil'd . Light bring no blindness ...
... doubt , where all is double ; Where wise men are not strong ; Where comfort turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer ... doubts be dumb : Let all words be mild : All strifes be reconcil'd : All pains beguil'd . Light bring no blindness ...
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... doubt , but which are making no essential contributions to the history of the world . 6 If now the relation which the gospel assumed to the emperor , who reckoned the Jews as his subjects , and , therefore , numbered Christ amongst them ...
... doubt , but which are making no essential contributions to the history of the world . 6 If now the relation which the gospel assumed to the emperor , who reckoned the Jews as his subjects , and , therefore , numbered Christ amongst them ...
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... doubt , but of a select description . May not the eagerness with which the Germans grasped at the sacraments , of redemption from sin and death , which they met with in Rome , have proceeded from this religious predisposition in the ...
... doubt , but of a select description . May not the eagerness with which the Germans grasped at the sacraments , of redemption from sin and death , which they met with in Rome , have proceeded from this religious predisposition in the ...
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... doubt that might arise a similar solution , until the whole collection of solutions to inquiries could be built up into one complete system . Now and then fresh sources of ancient learning were opened up , and former errors had to be ...
... doubt that might arise a similar solution , until the whole collection of solutions to inquiries could be built up into one complete system . Now and then fresh sources of ancient learning were opened up , and former errors had to be ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.