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... Religion of the Poets : Burns 16 Philip Skelton ( concluded ) .65 Assyrian Sepulchres 19 The Coal Slave 69 On the sight of a neat Library 21 Comforts in Affliction . 70 An African Preacher 21 The Threshing - Floor 70 Poetry . The ...
... Religion of the Poets : Burns 16 Philip Skelton ( concluded ) .65 Assyrian Sepulchres 19 The Coal Slave 69 On the sight of a neat Library 21 Comforts in Affliction . 70 An African Preacher 21 The Threshing - Floor 70 Poetry . The ...
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... religion ; and not so much the guide of our path , as the very eye by which we are directed , the very ground on which we tread , without which we may walk indeed , but it is in by - ways , not along the high road , with a phantom of ...
... religion ; and not so much the guide of our path , as the very eye by which we are directed , the very ground on which we tread , without which we may walk indeed , but it is in by - ways , not along the high road , with a phantom of ...
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... religious impressions , proceeded to Palestine , with the view of renting a farm , cultivating it after the English fashion , and teaching the natives to do the same . His experience was , that there was a deficiency of seasonable rain ...
... religious impressions , proceeded to Palestine , with the view of renting a farm , cultivating it after the English fashion , and teaching the natives to do the same . His experience was , that there was a deficiency of seasonable rain ...
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... RELIGION OF THE POETS . BURNS . * THE ravages which sentimentalism com- mits , and the various aspects which it assumes , are beyond what can easily be told ; as well attempt " To count the sea's abundant progeny ; " but in the end ...
... RELIGION OF THE POETS . BURNS . * THE ravages which sentimentalism com- mits , and the various aspects which it assumes , are beyond what can easily be told ; as well attempt " To count the sea's abundant progeny ; " but in the end ...
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... religion ; and yet we know that he who wrote these sentences lived to outrage the truth which he professed to admire . It was mere emotion ; there was no work of grace , no guidance of that Spirit who leads into all truth ; and the ...
... religion ; and yet we know that he who wrote these sentences lived to outrage the truth which he professed to admire . It was mere emotion ; there was no work of grace , no guidance of that Spirit who leads into all truth ; and the ...
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Page 33 - IN the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.
Page 17 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head; How his first followers and servants sped: The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down to heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope springs...
Page 44 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see them to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 70 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 58 - For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 30 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 186 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 208 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 'God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Page 117 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Page 276 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...