Domestic Memoirs of a Christian Family Resident in the County of Cumberland: With Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery of the British LakesJ. Hatchard and Son, 1848 - 416 pages |
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... earth . The science of human learning should but conduct us to that divine knowledge which aspires to a heavenly inheritance . The mechanical sciences should but teach us how to construct a moral lever that should open the gates of ...
... earth . The science of human learning should but conduct us to that divine knowledge which aspires to a heavenly inheritance . The mechanical sciences should but teach us how to construct a moral lever that should open the gates of ...
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... earth combine to say , ' How bless'd the righteous when she dies ! ' " * Mr. and Mrs. Gracelove had just returned home , after pay- ing the last mournful rites to their lamented relative ; on which melancholy occasion they had been ...
... earth combine to say , ' How bless'd the righteous when she dies ! ' " * Mr. and Mrs. Gracelove had just returned home , after pay- ing the last mournful rites to their lamented relative ; on which melancholy occasion they had been ...
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... earth as it was , the spirit shall return unto God who gave it . ” * The sacred preacher , you may remember , observes , there is " a time to be born , and a time to die ; " + but he only can die in peace who has lived in virtue ; -in ...
... earth as it was , the spirit shall return unto God who gave it . ” * The sacred preacher , you may remember , observes , there is " a time to be born , and a time to die ; " + but he only can die in peace who has lived in virtue ; -in ...
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... earth and stones swim , papa ? " 66 A floating island ! " exclaimed in the same breath Edmund and Laura ; " what an extraordinary thing ! How very sin- gular ! " " Well , step into the boat , my dear children , " said Mr. Gracelove ...
... earth and stones swim , papa ? " 66 A floating island ! " exclaimed in the same breath Edmund and Laura ; " what an extraordinary thing ! How very sin- gular ! " " Well , step into the boat , my dear children , " said Mr. Gracelove ...
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... earth and vegetable mould , as a balloon is raised in the air by its inflation with a similar elastic fluid . As long , therefore , as the gas remains unevaporated , the island floats ; but as soon as the escape of a sufficient quantity ...
... earth and vegetable mould , as a balloon is raised in the air by its inflation with a similar elastic fluid . As long , therefore , as the gas remains unevaporated , the island floats ; but as soon as the escape of a sufficient quantity ...
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Page 317 - Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Page 241 - But he answered and said unto him that told him; "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren ?" And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said ; " Behold, my mother, and my brethren.
Page 212 - Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. They have mouths, But they speak not : Eyes have they, But they see not : They have ears, But they hear not : Noses have they, But they smell not : They have hands, But they handle not : Feet have they, But they walk not : 230 Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them ; So is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 179 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 267 - But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Page 124 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shalt be ; Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known ; Yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are still my own.
Page 271 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils ; ' Speaking lies in hypocrisy ; having their conscience seared with a hot iron ; " ' Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 115 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 252 - And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you ; as also in all his Epistles speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 293 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.