The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 2-5Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1744 - Baptists |
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... Rich people may com- mand many sources of enjoyment , but they cannot command one more pure and profitable than good books afford , and it is a vast advantage which the poor people of these days enjoy , that good books are now cheapened ...
... Rich people may com- mand many sources of enjoyment , but they cannot command one more pure and profitable than good books afford , and it is a vast advantage which the poor people of these days enjoy , that good books are now cheapened ...
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... Rich in nature's splendour , Over honest pride , Gentleness , and candour . From your hearts condemn Vain gesticulation ; Oft we see a gem Dimm'd by affectation : Fashion's forms may do , Where there's ice below them , But where hearts ...
... Rich in nature's splendour , Over honest pride , Gentleness , and candour . From your hearts condemn Vain gesticulation ; Oft we see a gem Dimm'd by affectation : Fashion's forms may do , Where there's ice below them , But where hearts ...
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... rich ; she makes us humble in prosperity , cheerful in adversity , unmoved by calumny and reproach ; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us , and to be first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured ; she ...
... rich ; she makes us humble in prosperity , cheerful in adversity , unmoved by calumny and reproach ; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us , and to be first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured ; she ...
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... rich a crown ? His dying crimson , like a robe , Spreads o'er his body on the trees , Then am I dead to all the globe , And all the globe is dead to me . Were the whole realm of nature mine , That were a present far too small ; Love so ...
... rich a crown ? His dying crimson , like a robe , Spreads o'er his body on the trees , Then am I dead to all the globe , And all the globe is dead to me . Were the whole realm of nature mine , That were a present far too small ; Love so ...
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... rich man's state ! His house so fine , his wealth so great ! Heaven is unjust , you must agree- Why all to him and none to me . " Quoth , John , " Our ignorance is the cause , If thus we blame our Maker's laws ; Parts of his ways alone ...
... rich man's state ! His house so fine , his wealth so great ! Heaven is unjust , you must agree- Why all to him and none to me . " Quoth , John , " Our ignorance is the cause , If thus we blame our Maker's laws ; Parts of his ways alone ...
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Page 129 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 108 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled...
Page 92 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
Page 125 - An honest man's the noblest work of God;" And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Page 85 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 123 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 60 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Page 123 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest a.im : Perhaps " Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive
Page 121 - My loved, my honored, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah!
Page 124 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.