Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volume 11857 |
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... supply of material wants comparatively easy . Agricultural and pastoral pursuits , the two great branches of husbandry , are of equally ancient date . Cain was a tiller of the ground ; Abel a keeper of sheep ; and Jabal , in the seventh ...
... supply of material wants comparatively easy . Agricultural and pastoral pursuits , the two great branches of husbandry , are of equally ancient date . Cain was a tiller of the ground ; Abel a keeper of sheep ; and Jabal , in the seventh ...
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... supply is subject to very slight variations . Thus " He is faithful that promised ; " and as surely as the covenant of seed - time and harvest , summer and winter , cold and heat , day and night , is kept , so will every assurance of ...
... supply is subject to very slight variations . Thus " He is faithful that promised ; " and as surely as the covenant of seed - time and harvest , summer and winter , cold and heat , day and night , is kept , so will every assurance of ...
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... supply of the necessaries and com- forts of existence to the great mass of society , as compared with that of former times , that we are much favoured , and have great cause for devout thankfulness . Scotland gave birth to the great ...
... supply of the necessaries and com- forts of existence to the great mass of society , as compared with that of former times , that we are much favoured , and have great cause for devout thankfulness . Scotland gave birth to the great ...
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... supplies every want , and satisfies every desire of the spirit yearning after good . By trusting to the atonement of the cross with an enlightened confidence , and a sincere faith , views of God are obtained as a Being who pardons sin ...
... supplies every want , and satisfies every desire of the spirit yearning after good . By trusting to the atonement of the cross with an enlightened confidence , and a sincere faith , views of God are obtained as a Being who pardons sin ...
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... supply these materials , it would be necessary to consume 18lbs . of potato food in order to obtain the same quantity from it . The comparative facility of the cultivation , and the usually abundant yield of the crop were the prime ...
... supply these materials , it would be necessary to consume 18lbs . of potato food in order to obtain the same quantity from it . The comparative facility of the cultivation , and the usually abundant yield of the crop were the prime ...
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Page 5 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 328 - Give me to bear Thy easy yoke, And every moment watch and pray, And still to things eternal look, And hasten to Thy glorious day; 5 For Thee delightfully employ Whate'er Thy bounteous grace hath given, And run my course with even joy, And closely walk with Thee to Heaven.
Page 63 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Page 17 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Page 24 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 92 - Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sitteth on the Throne, and from the Wrath of the LAMB : for the great Day of His Wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand...
Page 40 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Page 76 - Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
Page 39 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 60 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.