Possession and Profession: Noon-day Meditations for the Thoughtful and the Thoughtless ...J. Nisbet, 1870 - 418 pagina's |
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... more true sublimity , more exquisite beauty , more pure morality , more important history , and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books . The unrestrained application of them to events which took ...
... more true sublimity , more exquisite beauty , more pure morality , more important history , and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books . The unrestrained application of them to events which took ...
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Possession and Profession: noon-day meditations for the thoughtful and the ... Volledige weergave - 1870 |
Possession and Profession: Noon-day Meditations for the Thoughtful and the ... Possession Volledige weergave - 1870 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 122 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.
Pagina 120 - The bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing Sings in the shade when all things rest : In lark and nightingale we see What honour hath humility. When Mary chose the "better part,
Pagina 201 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death : One army of the living God, To His command we bow ; Part of His host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Pagina 128 - I WAS a wandering sheep, I did not love the fold; I did not love my Shepherd's voice, I would not be controlled. I was a wayward child, I did not love my home; I did not love my Father's voice, I loved afar to roam.
Pagina 1 - JUST as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come...
Pagina 283 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Pagina 275 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Pagina 371 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Pagina 119 - We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all, the distant and the near, Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear. We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power!
Pagina iv - Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief And sin is here ; Our age is but the falling of a leaf — A dropping tear ; We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours.