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... habits of intimacy with a kindred mind , Dr. Bathurst , of Trinity College . This gentleman kept a hen to hatch eggs in his chamber , which they opened daily to understand the whole pro- cess and results of incubation . Eggs , " says ...
... habits of intimacy with a kindred mind , Dr. Bathurst , of Trinity College . This gentleman kept a hen to hatch eggs in his chamber , which they opened daily to understand the whole pro- cess and results of incubation . Eggs , " says ...
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... habits - not , it must be confessed , very consonant to the hours or manners of the present day was the last published in his life - time , and he concludes it by observing that he has now given to the world the sum of all which he knew ...
... habits - not , it must be confessed , very consonant to the hours or manners of the present day was the last published in his life - time , and he concludes it by observing that he has now given to the world the sum of all which he knew ...
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... habit of calling the " immortal Sydenham . " He after- wards made himself acquainted with the chemistry of his age , and spent whole days and nights in the experimental study of that fascinating science . In botany , he made an equal ...
... habit of calling the " immortal Sydenham . " He after- wards made himself acquainted with the chemistry of his age , and spent whole days and nights in the experimental study of that fascinating science . In botany , he made an equal ...
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... habit to devote the first hour of every day to prayer and meditation on the word of God - a practice which he recom- mended to others , declaring that he derived from it a vigour which carried him through all the toils of his profession ...
... habit to devote the first hour of every day to prayer and meditation on the word of God - a practice which he recom- mended to others , declaring that he derived from it a vigour which carried him through all the toils of his profession ...
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... habits of strict attention to moral principle , and a regard to the outward duties of religion . From the com- mencement of his apprenticeship , he never omitted prayer on rising in the morning and retiring at night . This exposed him ...
... habits of strict attention to moral principle , and a regard to the outward duties of religion . From the com- mencement of his apprenticeship , he never omitted prayer on rising in the morning and retiring at night . This exposed him ...
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Page 55 - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous...
Page 37 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 49 - The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Page 122 - Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Page 56 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 120 - All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus.' ' What words for dying lips to rest upon.' At another time, as one of his family was sitting by, he uttered some expression, not accurately remembered, of deep sorrow for sin.
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Page 151 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
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