Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use of Young PersonsLeonard C. Bowles, 1831 - 352 pages |
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... hath blest ; His strength shall sustain it , his comforts shall cherish , And make it to prosper , though thou art at rest . ' BOSTON , LEONARD C. BOWLES . MDCCCXXXI . DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS , to wit . District Clerk's Office CHAPTER.
... hath blest ; His strength shall sustain it , his comforts shall cherish , And make it to prosper , though thou art at rest . ' BOSTON , LEONARD C. BOWLES . MDCCCXXXI . DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS , to wit . District Clerk's Office CHAPTER.
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... comforts shall cherish , And make it to prosper , though thou art at rest . ' In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning . by securing the copies of maps , charts ...
... comforts shall cherish , And make it to prosper , though thou art at rest . ' In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning . by securing the copies of maps , charts ...
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... comfort , as so grievous a deprivation must bear heavy on us , though the manner in which my father was taken away was most merciful both to himself and to us . May we die the death of the righteous ! It was an event he had long looked ...
... comfort , as so grievous a deprivation must bear heavy on us , though the manner in which my father was taken away was most merciful both to himself and to us . May we die the death of the righteous ! It was an event he had long looked ...
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... his nights without sleep ; his mind remained the same , blessing God for every little interval of pain , and de- lighting to recount the mercies he had ex- perienced , and to give his children comfort and advice 3 * REGINALD HEBER . 23.
... his nights without sleep ; his mind remained the same , blessing God for every little interval of pain , and de- lighting to recount the mercies he had ex- perienced , and to give his children comfort and advice 3 * REGINALD HEBER . 23.
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... comfort and advice . These conversations , which were much more frequent than his strength could well bear , I trust in God I shall never forget . Our hopes in the meantime were buoyed up by many fair appearances , and by the gradual ...
... comfort and advice . These conversations , which were much more frequent than his strength could well bear , I trust in God I shall never forget . Our hopes in the meantime were buoyed up by many fair appearances , and by the gradual ...
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Page 298 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Page 85 - Thou art gone to the grave ! — we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side ; But the wide arms of mercy are...
Page 275 - O'er broad Hindostan's sultry meads, O'er bleak Almorah's hill. ' That course, nor Delhi's kingly gates, Nor wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits By yonder western main. ' Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say, Across the dark blue sea, But ne'er were hearts so light and gay As then shall meet in thee...
Page 274 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
Page 340 - ... countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Page 331 - Firm wast thou, humble and wise, Honest, pure, free from disguise ; Father of orphans, the widow's support, Comfort in sorrow of every sort, To the benighted dispenser of light, Doing and pointing to that which is right. Blessing to princes, to people, to me : May I, my father, be worthy of thee. Wishes and prayeth thy Sarabojee.
Page 85 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.