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... heavens , it is liable to be blasted by every changing breeze . Man but flut- ters for a few years , and then is gone ! Like the fly eddying within the vortex of the candle , every circle draws it nearer destruction ; so every year ...
... heavens , it is liable to be blasted by every changing breeze . Man but flut- ters for a few years , and then is gone ! Like the fly eddying within the vortex of the candle , every circle draws it nearer destruction ; so every year ...
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... heaven sing for ever . In the view to the east , Cheapside , the Bank of England , and the Royal Exchange , recall to the mind the accumulating power of commerce , and the great sums of wealth that lie buried from the view . Can wealth ...
... heaven sing for ever . In the view to the east , Cheapside , the Bank of England , and the Royal Exchange , recall to the mind the accumulating power of commerce , and the great sums of wealth that lie buried from the view . Can wealth ...
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... heaven , shall , in like manner , descend sur- rounded with thousands of angels ; but who may abide the day of his ... heavens . Deprived of this light , man is but little elevated above the brute creation ; he is incapable of pursuing ...
... heaven , shall , in like manner , descend sur- rounded with thousands of angels ; but who may abide the day of his ... heavens . Deprived of this light , man is but little elevated above the brute creation ; he is incapable of pursuing ...
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... Heaven ; for God hath declared he will take vengeance on them who have slain his saints : " Thou art righteous , O Lord , which art , and wast , and shall be , because thou hast judged thus . For they have shed the blood of saints and ...
... Heaven ; for God hath declared he will take vengeance on them who have slain his saints : " Thou art righteous , O Lord , which art , and wast , and shall be , because thou hast judged thus . For they have shed the blood of saints and ...
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... names enrolled amongst the illustrious dead . Fame is but a breath ; its laurels have enwreathed the brows of many who shall be held in everlasting contempt by the heaven- ly host . Capricious is the praise of men , 16 TRUE HAPPINESS FOUND.
... names enrolled amongst the illustrious dead . Fame is but a breath ; its laurels have enwreathed the brows of many who shall be held in everlasting contempt by the heaven- ly host . Capricious is the praise of men , 16 TRUE HAPPINESS FOUND.
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Page 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Page 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Page 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Page 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...