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... allows her virtues to shine with extensive luftre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of your MA- JESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the cares , and ...
... allows her virtues to shine with extensive luftre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of your MA- JESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the cares , and ...
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... allowed to them . By others , these offices are discharged solely from a principle of duty . They are men of cold affections , and perhaps of an interested character . But , overawed by a sense of religion , and convinced that they are ...
... allowed to them . By others , these offices are discharged solely from a principle of duty . They are men of cold affections , and perhaps of an interested character . But , overawed by a sense of religion , and convinced that they are ...
Page 55
... allowed us into that dark and unknown region . Futurity belongs to God ; and happy for us is that mysterious veil , with which his wisdom has covered it . Were it in our power to lift up the veil , and to behold what it conceals , many ...
... allowed us into that dark and unknown region . Futurity belongs to God ; and happy for us is that mysterious veil , with which his wisdom has covered it . Were it in our power to lift up the veil , and to behold what it conceals , many ...
Page 83
... allow us to go on freely in acting our parts on earth . Yet , familiar as death is now become , it is undoubtedly fit that by an event of so important a nature , some impression should be made upon our minds . It ought not to pass over ...
... allow us to go on freely in acting our parts on earth . Yet , familiar as death is now become , it is undoubtedly fit that by an event of so important a nature , some impression should be made upon our minds . It ought not to pass over ...
Page 111
... Allow me to warn you , that the most gay and pleasing are sometimes the most insidious and dangerous companions ; an admonition which respects both the sexes . Often they attach themselves to you from interested motives ; and if any ...
... Allow me to warn you , that the most gay and pleasing are sometimes the most insidious and dangerous companions ; an admonition which respects both the sexes . Often they attach themselves to you from interested motives ; and if any ...
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Popular passages
Page 327 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Page 322 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 221 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 52 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Page 126 - And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 391 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 2 - Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
Page 370 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help...
Page 42 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 170 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.