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... with a chastened hope , that although originally designed for individual characters and cases , they may admit of a less restricted ap- plication . May 1 , 1828 . M. J. J. LETTERS TO THE YOUNG . MY DEAREST LETTER I. You.
... with a chastened hope , that although originally designed for individual characters and cases , they may admit of a less restricted ap- plication . May 1 , 1828 . M. J. J. LETTERS TO THE YOUNG . MY DEAREST LETTER I. You.
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... less interest , merely from its connexion , with pure and solemn truth ? Why easiness of access , and facility of comprehension , should derogate from intrinsic merit ? Why figures , and epithets , and harmony of language , - why ...
... less interest , merely from its connexion , with pure and solemn truth ? Why easiness of access , and facility of comprehension , should derogate from intrinsic merit ? Why figures , and epithets , and harmony of language , - why ...
Pagina 6
... less than religiously , we are not following " cunningly devised fables ; " that the heroes actually ex . The host of heaven , his Phoebus and his Mars , He arms , instructed by her fighting stars . Truth she relates in a sublimer ...
... less than religiously , we are not following " cunningly devised fables ; " that the heroes actually ex . The host of heaven , his Phoebus and his Mars , He arms , instructed by her fighting stars . Truth she relates in a sublimer ...
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... less would I assume , that inde- pendent of containing all things needful to salvation , they contain all that are desirable for information . Nevertheless , I have a very high idea of what the bible , as a book , is able to do for man ...
... less would I assume , that inde- pendent of containing all things needful to salvation , they contain all that are desirable for information . Nevertheless , I have a very high idea of what the bible , as a book , is able to do for man ...
Pagina 13
... less combat with Goliath , and its simplicity in his unboasting conquest ; whilst his min- strelsy in the court of Saul , his marriage with that monarch's daughter , the first and last days of his friendship with the princely Jona- than ...
... less combat with Goliath , and its simplicity in his unboasting conquest ; whilst his min- strelsy in the court of Saul , his marriage with that monarch's daughter , the first and last days of his friendship with the princely Jona- than ...
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Absalom Ahab allegory beauty behold bible blessing character Christ Christian comfort David dear dearest death declension delight desire divine divine grace duty earth earthly enjoyment eternity everlasting evil faith fancy Father favour fear feel fruit fulness give glorious glory gospel grace Habakkuk happiness hath heart heaven holy Holy Spirit honour hope human idolatry imagination influence intel intellectual Isaiah Israel Jesus Jews king Lamb of God less LETTER light living look Lord ment merely mind motive mournful Naboth nature ness never Old Testament ourselves peace perfect person pleasure poetry possess pray prayer principle promised prophet Psalm racters regard religion salvation satisfied Saviour scriptures seek Sir John Moore sorrow soul spirit strength strive taste thee thine things thou thoughts tion true truth uncon unto vanity verse walk Washington Irving whilst wilderness words
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Pagina 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Pagina 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Pagina 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Pagina 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Pagina 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Pagina 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Pagina 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Pagina 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Pagina 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Pagina 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.