The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 6Darius Mead, 1850 |
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... less real and rational complaisance , than among those who have passed their time in paying and receiv- ing visits , in frequenting public entertainments , in studying the exact measures of ceremony , and in watching all the variations ...
... less real and rational complaisance , than among those who have passed their time in paying and receiv- ing visits , in frequenting public entertainments , in studying the exact measures of ceremony , and in watching all the variations ...
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... less favored , is the one great object of fashionable ambition . A disinterested regard for the happiness of others , and a constant and unselfish effort to promote their comfort , have but little place in the hearts or plans of ...
... less favored , is the one great object of fashionable ambition . A disinterested regard for the happiness of others , and a constant and unselfish effort to promote their comfort , have but little place in the hearts or plans of ...
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... less disqualify man ; and in truth , in the great mass of cases wo- men have greatly more spare time for mental culture than men have . This fact renders their neglect of such studies the more to be deplored . The senseless ridicule ...
... less disqualify man ; and in truth , in the great mass of cases wo- men have greatly more spare time for mental culture than men have . This fact renders their neglect of such studies the more to be deplored . The senseless ridicule ...
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... less pure or healthy . Even that most morbid kind of sorrow which , morosely plunging in religious speculation , verges on fanaticism , though the most tenacious , because most tickling to human weakness , is liable to the same decay ...
... less pure or healthy . Even that most morbid kind of sorrow which , morosely plunging in religious speculation , verges on fanaticism , though the most tenacious , because most tickling to human weakness , is liable to the same decay ...
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... less ; he had a knowledge of the attributes of God , and worshipped Him in sincerity ; he manifested submission , patience , and penitence when punish- ment was denounced upon his house ; and at the last , when he watched , with a ...
... less ; he had a knowledge of the attributes of God , and worshipped Him in sincerity ; he manifested submission , patience , and penitence when punish- ment was denounced upon his house ; and at the last , when he watched , with a ...
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Page 240 - And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces and worshipped God, saying, Amen, blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen.
Page 359 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 239 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 371 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 354 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps, and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 71 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 155 - For I am the Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Page 254 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 61 - Their line is gone out through all the earth : and their words to the end of the world.
Page 286 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...