The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 171849 |
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... poet , strange teacher of the Church ! rise to our minds . How stern a sermon does this Saul among the prophets preach , not only to the sisters of the fallen , but to all ; when , comparing the fate of the outcast sinner to that of the ...
... poet , strange teacher of the Church ! rise to our minds . How stern a sermon does this Saul among the prophets preach , not only to the sisters of the fallen , but to all ; when , comparing the fate of the outcast sinner to that of the ...
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... poets and novelists lavish on their heroines , it is compara- tively a rare thing for the imagination to be in the least taken by their pictures , which are commonly mere catalogues of charms and accomplishments , nothing that we can ...
... poets and novelists lavish on their heroines , it is compara- tively a rare thing for the imagination to be in the least taken by their pictures , which are commonly mere catalogues of charms and accomplishments , nothing that we can ...
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... poet , and raised his mother's joy and pride in him to the highest point - their mutual farewell — her high - wrought feelings , form one of the few really pathetic scenes Miss Bremer has ever attempted . Her late discoveries in science ...
... poet , and raised his mother's joy and pride in him to the highest point - their mutual farewell — her high - wrought feelings , form one of the few really pathetic scenes Miss Bremer has ever attempted . Her late discoveries in science ...
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... poets tell us that the setting sun , before his total dis- appearance in the western waters , casts one bright glance expressive of his regret at leaving a world so beautiful as our own . This poetical description of the sunset is ...
... poets tell us that the setting sun , before his total dis- appearance in the western waters , casts one bright glance expressive of his regret at leaving a world so beautiful as our own . This poetical description of the sunset is ...
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... poet except Homer , and the pedantic Colophonian , Nicander , whose works , on poisons and their cure , present no attractions except to those who pursue the study of zoological or medicinal antiquities . Such were the greater stars ...
... poet except Homer , and the pedantic Colophonian , Nicander , whose works , on poisons and their cure , present no attractions except to those who pursue the study of zoological or medicinal antiquities . Such were the greater stars ...
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Page 165 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 292 - Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 165 - Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records...
Page 185 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 151 - And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Page 197 - Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Page 197 - The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
Page 371 - If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive...
Page 158 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 175 - em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem TO see the things thou dost not.