Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D....: With Copious Extracts from His Writings, Volume 1S. A. George, 1879 |
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... heart , a silent and a sweet forget - me - not may linger ; but time soon effaces this last memorial , and no relic then remains on earth of the life that once has been . Yet it is not so with the great actors on this world's stage ...
... heart , a silent and a sweet forget - me - not may linger ; but time soon effaces this last memorial , and no relic then remains on earth of the life that once has been . Yet it is not so with the great actors on this world's stage ...
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... heart that through the ages all along have been her ser- vants , is a high and holy office too ; and it would be diffi- cult to overestimate the value of Dr. Perry's services in this department of ecclesiastical labor . To a manuscript ...
... heart that through the ages all along have been her ser- vants , is a high and holy office too ; and it would be diffi- cult to overestimate the value of Dr. Perry's services in this department of ecclesiastical labor . To a manuscript ...
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... heart ! Ye Fountains , haste the inspiring wave to roll , And bid Castalian draughts refresh the soul ! " ' Tis done - woods , brooks , gales , fountains , all obey ; And say , with general voice , or seem to say , - " Hail , Heaven ...
... heart ! Ye Fountains , haste the inspiring wave to roll , And bid Castalian draughts refresh the soul ! " ' Tis done - woods , brooks , gales , fountains , all obey ; And say , with general voice , or seem to say , - " Hail , Heaven ...
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... heart ; —when once a few intermarriages are made between the chief families of the different nations in each county , which will natu- rally follow from School - acquaintances , & the acquisition of a common language , no arts of our ...
... heart ; —when once a few intermarriages are made between the chief families of the different nations in each county , which will natu- rally follow from School - acquaintances , & the acquisition of a common language , no arts of our ...
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... heart must have been long petrifi'd & train'd up in deeds of violence , before one can think of attacking peaceful , unsuspecting neighbors , thro ' mere lust of rule , without being eternally pierced with all the unsufferable pangs of ...
... heart must have been long petrifi'd & train'd up in deeds of violence , before one can think of attacking peaceful , unsuspecting neighbors , thro ' mere lust of rule , without being eternally pierced with all the unsufferable pangs of ...
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Page 255 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Page 514 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Page 280 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 279 - Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool : where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? For all those things hath Mine hand made...
Page 279 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Page 514 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
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Page 492 - That the act of parliament, for shutting up the port of Boston, is unconstitutional ; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town ; dangerous to the liberties of the British colonies; and that therefore, we consider our brethren, at Boston, as suffering in the common cause of America.
Page 332 - WHEREAS, the trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania, and the trustees of the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the...