The Christian Lady, and Her Course of Life, Or, Instructions in Personal Piety, Domestic Duties, and Social Intercourse from Childhood to Old Age |
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... strength to lift the massy stones of the palace or the temple , deck the poetic bower , train the rosary , and form the alcove . It may be a light and fragile structure , yet has its " pleasant use , and the thoughtful lord of creation ...
... strength to lift the massy stones of the palace or the temple , deck the poetic bower , train the rosary , and form the alcove . It may be a light and fragile structure , yet has its " pleasant use , and the thoughtful lord of creation ...
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... strength to lift the massy stones of the palace or the temple , deck the poetic bower , train the rosary , and form the alcove . It may be a light and fragile structure , yet has its < pleasant use , and the thoughtful lord of creation ...
... strength to lift the massy stones of the palace or the temple , deck the poetic bower , train the rosary , and form the alcove . It may be a light and fragile structure , yet has its < pleasant use , and the thoughtful lord of creation ...
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... untrained and reckless youth ; to the chains of habit , appetite and passion , coiling and strength- ening year by year around advancing life ; nor to heads bowing down in remorseful or frivolous and unhonoured old CHILDHOOD . 9.
... untrained and reckless youth ; to the chains of habit , appetite and passion , coiling and strength- ening year by year around advancing life ; nor to heads bowing down in remorseful or frivolous and unhonoured old CHILDHOOD . 9.
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... strength ; but Hume started , as if from the nursery , a perfect and full - grown infidel . " No after - call of providence or grace succeeded in winning this spirit , whose infancy had been un- invited to the gospel feast ; he lived in ...
... strength ; but Hume started , as if from the nursery , a perfect and full - grown infidel . " No after - call of providence or grace succeeded in winning this spirit , whose infancy had been un- invited to the gospel feast ; he lived in ...
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... strength . The morning of life , if idle and undisciplined , is generally followed by a stormy noon , and cloudy evening . Ought this re- flection to induce gloomy and severe restraint ? Should it abridge the fresh morning delights of ...
... strength . The morning of life , if idle and undisciplined , is generally followed by a stormy noon , and cloudy evening . Ought this re- flection to induce gloomy and severe restraint ? Should it abridge the fresh morning delights of ...
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Page 315 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 66 - I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Page 86 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 321 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 82 - He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him : and he shall see his face with joy, for he will render unto man his righteousness.
Page 140 - God to come unto you ; for I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ; that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Page 82 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness ; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.
Page 219 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 114 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Page 258 - Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.