Memoirs, Including Letters, and Select Remains, of John Urquhart, Late of the University of St. Andrew's, Volume 1Crocker and Brewster, 1828 - 270 pages |
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... person of fine taste and lofty intellect ; which , beaming forth as they did , from one who had not yet terminated his boy - hood , gave the indication and the promise of something quite superlative in future life PREFACE , xiii.
... person of fine taste and lofty intellect ; which , beaming forth as they did , from one who had not yet terminated his boy - hood , gave the indication and the promise of something quite superlative in future life PREFACE , xiii.
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William Orme. and the promise of something quite superlative in future life . It was not till after I had for a time admired his capacities for science , that I knew him as the object of a far higher admiration , for his deep and devoted ...
William Orme. and the promise of something quite superlative in future life . It was not till after I had for a time admired his capacities for science , that I knew him as the object of a far higher admiration , for his deep and devoted ...
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William Orme. first properties of numbers . The acorn contains the elements of the future oak . Many proceed no farther than the elements of science ; but all who advance to its lofty summits , must advance from its first principles to ...
William Orme. first properties of numbers . The acorn contains the elements of the future oak . Many proceed no farther than the elements of science ; but all who advance to its lofty summits , must advance from its first principles to ...
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... future reward will bear some proportion to the degree of successful exertion in the cause of Christ , it must , therefore , be more desirable to have oppor- tunity for full and even long continued employ- ment in this world , than to be ...
... future reward will bear some proportion to the degree of successful exertion in the cause of Christ , it must , therefore , be more desirable to have oppor- tunity for full and even long continued employ- ment in this world , than to be ...
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... his docile and inquisitive disposi- tion , to direct his attention to the most interesting of all subjects . It is not often that we can trace the impressions of childhood in the future habits and character 10 MEMOIRS OF.
... his docile and inquisitive disposi- tion , to direct his attention to the most interesting of all subjects . It is not often that we can trace the impressions of childhood in the future habits and character 10 MEMOIRS OF.
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Page 134 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee ; His visage was so marred more than any man, And his form more than the sons of men...
Page 64 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 11 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 204 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 192 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 144 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 171 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Page 132 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 61 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 134 - Every man's work shall be made manifest : for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire : and the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is.