History of Moral Science, Volume 2James Duncan, 1833 |
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Page 332 - that God commanded Abraham, saying, " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 333 - father ; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering ? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering ; so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God
Page 95 - when thou liest down, and when thou riseth up : And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes ; and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates."* The
Page 58 - of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return into the ground ; for out of it wast
Page 95 - thy soul, and with all thy might: And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in the house, and when thou walkest by the
Page 96 - If ye love them that love you, what reward have ye ? Do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren Only, what do ye more than others ? Do not even the publicans do so
Page 60 - all the men of Israel; your little ones, your wives, and the stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy water ; that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy
Page 30 - Auspicious HOPE ! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe; Won by their sweets, in nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring.
Page 335 - And behold thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Page 74 - virtue our happiness, and vice our misery; it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species. For what else can have an influence of this nature ? But, in order to pave the way for such a sentiment, and give a proper discernment