The Contrast Between Good and Bad Men: Illustrated by the Biography and Truths of the Bible, Volume 1M. W. Dodd, 1855 |
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... youth lending all their enchantment to evil . The temples were desolate ; their fires had gone out , and impious rites and ceremonies had thrust aside the worship of the true God . The sanctuaries of justice had become haunts of fraud ...
... youth lending all their enchantment to evil . The temples were desolate ; their fires had gone out , and impious rites and ceremonies had thrust aside the worship of the true God . The sanctuaries of justice had become haunts of fraud ...
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... youth of royal lineage , renounced his hereditary honors for the sake of rekindling in Scotland the smoldering beacon of God's truth , though he himself was the first victim to the flames . But it was a still nobler spectacle to see ...
... youth of royal lineage , renounced his hereditary honors for the sake of rekindling in Scotland the smoldering beacon of God's truth , though he himself was the first victim to the flames . But it was a still nobler spectacle to see ...
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... youth , manhood and age were there ; bloom and vigor every where greeted his eye , and pleasure and song fell on his ear . It was now empty and waste . It was the silence of one vast sepulcher ; no living thing dwelt in it . Pride and ...
... youth , manhood and age were there ; bloom and vigor every where greeted his eye , and pleasure and song fell on his ear . It was now empty and waste . It was the silence of one vast sepulcher ; no living thing dwelt in it . Pride and ...
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... the world are enriched by such examples of piety , honored and beloved alike in youth and old age . We find the same well - disciplined and accom- plished piety expressing itself in his domestic rela- tions . 68 ABRAHAM .
... the world are enriched by such examples of piety , honored and beloved alike in youth and old age . We find the same well - disciplined and accom- plished piety expressing itself in his domestic rela- tions . 68 ABRAHAM .
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... youth , was the daughter of his father , but not the daughter of his mother . She was distinguished for her personal beauty , and well deserved to be the mother of one of the most distinguished races . And who does not see that his ...
... youth , was the daughter of his father , but not the daughter of his mother . She was distinguished for her personal beauty , and well deserved to be the mother of one of the most distinguished races . And who does not see that his ...
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Page 18 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 217 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Page 175 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 199 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.