Early days; or, The Wesleyan scholar's guide1870 |
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... appears the lot which it seems good to our Father who is in heaven to appoint to you ! How difficult it is sometimes not to give way to a distrust of His goodness and mercy , His were wisdom and power ! It is a cause of A 4 EARLY DAYS ...
... appears the lot which it seems good to our Father who is in heaven to appoint to you ! How difficult it is sometimes not to give way to a distrust of His goodness and mercy , His were wisdom and power ! It is a cause of A 4 EARLY DAYS ...
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... appear ; so that fishermen may proceed at once to take them . Poor herring ! Who would have thought , when Dr. Franklin first drew down the electric fluid from the sky with his kite , that he was paving the way for man to catch thee ...
... appear ; so that fishermen may proceed at once to take them . Poor herring ! Who would have thought , when Dr. Franklin first drew down the electric fluid from the sky with his kite , that he was paving the way for man to catch thee ...
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... appearing large even at the distance we were from them . We concluded they were eagles . One of them , quite separated from the rest , especially at- tracted our attention . She was nearer the rocks than the others , and her head was ...
... appearing large even at the distance we were from them . We concluded they were eagles . One of them , quite separated from the rest , especially at- tracted our attention . She was nearer the rocks than the others , and her head was ...
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... appears to be alluded to in the text above quoted . FINGER - MARKS . SHORT time since , a gentleman employed a mason to do some work for him , and , among other things , to " thin - whiten " the walls of one of his chambers . This thin ...
... appears to be alluded to in the text above quoted . FINGER - MARKS . SHORT time since , a gentleman employed a mason to do some work for him , and , among other things , to " thin - whiten " the walls of one of his chambers . This thin ...
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... appear to be vitrified ; that is , have run together as if they had been exposed to a strong fire . One apartment , about twelve feet square , and almost inac- cessible , is still known as the " apartment of Queen Mary . " Thus do all ...
... appear to be vitrified ; that is , have run together as if they had been exposed to a strong fire . One apartment , about twelve feet square , and almost inac- cessible , is still known as the " apartment of Queen Mary . " Thus do all ...
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Page 137 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Page 44 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 235 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 129 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Page 44 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 107 - Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Page 179 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro ; Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know : I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Page 24 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 177 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes...
Page 3 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.