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... death . Early piety , when the tone of feeling is healthy and vigorous , has a mighty power to sharpen the in- tellect , and develop all the faculties of the mind . It gives an impulse to the whole being ; energizes every thought ; and ...
... death . Early piety , when the tone of feeling is healthy and vigorous , has a mighty power to sharpen the in- tellect , and develop all the faculties of the mind . It gives an impulse to the whole being ; energizes every thought ; and ...
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... fact so often realized - the early removal , by death , of those whose piety and talents afforded the most encouraging anticipations of future and extended usefulness . An instance in point is furnished by the INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . xi.
... fact so often realized - the early removal , by death , of those whose piety and talents afforded the most encouraging anticipations of future and extended usefulness . An instance in point is furnished by the INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . xi.
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... death ? Rather , is not every part of her religious character and con- duct , every counsel that her lips uttered , and every prayer that her spirit breathed , invested with new emphasis , by the thought that neither counsels nor ...
... death ? Rather , is not every part of her religious character and con- duct , every counsel that her lips uttered , and every prayer that her spirit breathed , invested with new emphasis , by the thought that neither counsels nor ...
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... death is no common occurrence , or that , because it is so , we may trifle with the only means which can dis pel its gloom , and avert its certain consequences to the impenitent " the worm that dieth not , and the fir that is not ...
... death is no common occurrence , or that , because it is so , we may trifle with the only means which can dis pel its gloom , and avert its certain consequences to the impenitent " the worm that dieth not , and the fir that is not ...
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... death is not looked for as an event in the common course of nature ; so that if it does then oc- cur , it comes , in a certain sense , out of season , and is therefore the more trying to all whom it concerns . Accordingly the operation ...
... death is not looked for as an event in the common course of nature ; so that if it does then oc- cur , it comes , in a certain sense , out of season , and is therefore the more trying to all whom it concerns . Accordingly the operation ...
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Page 43 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 22 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 35 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 41 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here : that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor : This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 144 - WHEN I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
Page 61 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...
Page 114 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 50 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 41 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; tnat but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.