Moral and Religious SouvenirN.S. Simpkins, 1828 - 288 pages |
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... less ready to bear with intellectual weakness . There is often , es- pecially in the middle classes of life , as great a difference of mental culture in the parent and child , as if they had lived at the distance of many centuries . The ...
... less ready to bear with intellectual weakness . There is often , es- pecially in the middle classes of life , as great a difference of mental culture in the parent and child , as if they had lived at the distance of many centuries . The ...
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... less noble , when it can thus feel contempt , than the humble ignorance which it despises . Next in order to the relationship of parent and child , may be considered the relation which the child bears to those who are united with him ...
... less noble , when it can thus feel contempt , than the humble ignorance which it despises . Next in order to the relationship of parent and child , may be considered the relation which the child bears to those who are united with him ...
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... less , one by one , scrutinize the justice , of those disparaging insinuations , which crowd the pages of this elaborate history ? What reader suspends his curiosity , or calls off his attention from the principal narrative , to examine ...
... less , one by one , scrutinize the justice , of those disparaging insinuations , which crowd the pages of this elaborate history ? What reader suspends his curiosity , or calls off his attention from the principal narrative , to examine ...
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... less , because impure ideas are exhibited under a veil , in covert and chastised language . Seriousness is not constraint of thought ; nor levity , freedom . Every mind , which wishes the advancement of truth and knowledge in the most ...
... less , because impure ideas are exhibited under a veil , in covert and chastised language . Seriousness is not constraint of thought ; nor levity , freedom . Every mind , which wishes the advancement of truth and knowledge in the most ...
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... less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame , one instant reawakened and re- invested , the next ...
... less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame , one instant reawakened and re- invested , the next ...
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Page 103 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 98 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 167 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow, And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires...
Page 52 - Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect.
Page 167 - MUSIC. BLEST pair of sirens, pledges of heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed power employ, Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce...
Page 158 - I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some...
Page 127 - In the midst of the current of life was the gulf of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose, and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
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Page 115 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 125 - ... ocean of life; that we had already passed the straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weakness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence of those who undertook to steer them; and that we were now on the main sea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of security than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.