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 on whom the task is most properly devolved . He is altogether worthy of the biographical notice which you purpose . My first knowledge of him was as a student , in which capacity he far outpeered all his fellows ; and in a class ...
... person on whom the task is most properly devolved . He is altogether worthy of the biographical notice which you purpose . My first knowledge of him was as a student , in which capacity he far outpeered all his fellows ; and in a class ...
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... persons deserve . They live for time , and they live for themselves . In their characters none of the elements of an enlarged and immortal be- nevolence exist . To the present state of being , all their views and wishes are limited ...
... persons deserve . They live for time , and they live for themselves . In their characters none of the elements of an enlarged and immortal be- nevolence exist . To the present state of being , all their views and wishes are limited ...
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... persons as to the hero of the story . The life of the most interesting person whom this world has produced , whose actions were entirely directed to the affairs of the world , and whose training had little bearing on the enjoyment and ...
... persons as to the hero of the story . The life of the most interesting person whom this world has produced , whose actions were entirely directed to the affairs of the world , and whose training had little bearing on the enjoyment and ...
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... persons who grow old in the profession of christianity . After having passed honourably through the novitiate of the divine life , they advance little farther , disappoint the promise they originally held out , and are chilled , if not ...
... persons who grow old in the profession of christianity . After having passed honourably through the novitiate of the divine life , they advance little farther , disappoint the promise they originally held out , and are chilled , if not ...
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... persons as die in youth . They never were otherwise known , or can be remembered , than as excellent young persons . This is the only idea which remains of them . Had they lived longer , to the usual age of man , the remembrance of what ...
... persons as die in youth . They never were otherwise known , or can be remembered , than as excellent young persons . This is the only idea which remains of them . Had they lived longer , to the usual age of man , the remembrance of what ...
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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.