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... possessions to feed the poor , the healthy gave their time to the nursing of the sick , and his disciples devoted their lives to the benefit of mankind . When results so benevolent in effect , and so universal in power , sprung from the ...
... possessions to feed the poor , the healthy gave their time to the nursing of the sick , and his disciples devoted their lives to the benefit of mankind . When results so benevolent in effect , and so universal in power , sprung from the ...
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... possession when obtained at the price of the soul ? Gaudy are the triumphs of the great , dissipating the pursuits of pleasure , and de- moralizing the habits of the courtier . The votaries of fashion are more to be pitied than envied ...
... possession when obtained at the price of the soul ? Gaudy are the triumphs of the great , dissipating the pursuits of pleasure , and de- moralizing the habits of the courtier . The votaries of fashion are more to be pitied than envied ...
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... possession ! his hand is not shortened that it cannot save ; neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear . Doubt not then of the triumph of Jesus , O ye ! of little faith ; for the word hath gone forth from the Lord of Hosts , and it ...
... possession ! his hand is not shortened that it cannot save ; neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear . Doubt not then of the triumph of Jesus , O ye ! of little faith ; for the word hath gone forth from the Lord of Hosts , and it ...
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... possession a Bible , and attend a place of worship , still they neglect impressing its precepts on the minds of their children , and exhibiting an example of humble holiness before them . Their children spring up healthy and vigorous ...
... possession a Bible , and attend a place of worship , still they neglect impressing its precepts on the minds of their children , and exhibiting an example of humble holiness before them . Their children spring up healthy and vigorous ...
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... possession of the light of the gos- pel that hath raised us to what we are ; it is the retaining and practising it in its purity that exalts us above other nations ; but if we allow the children of the poor to spring up without the ...
... possession of the light of the gos- pel that hath raised us to what we are ; it is the retaining and practising it in its purity that exalts us above other nations ; but if we allow the children of the poor to spring up without the ...
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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...