Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural History, Elementary Science, Accounts of Remarkable Persons, Places [etc.]: With a Selection of Passages from the British Poets [etc.]Oliver & Boyd, 1843 |
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... act the same part , with the fond object of their admiration , -to " live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . " Hence it has been the admonition of the wise of every age to their disciples , continually to set before them some ...
... act the same part , with the fond object of their admiration , -to " live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . " Hence it has been the admonition of the wise of every age to their disciples , continually to set before them some ...
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... acts of compassion alone . He was not less ready to rejoice with them that rejoice , than to weep with them that weep . His very first miracle he performed to pro- mote the hilarity of a marriage - feast : and it was laid to his charge ...
... acts of compassion alone . He was not less ready to rejoice with them that rejoice , than to weep with them that weep . His very first miracle he performed to pro- mote the hilarity of a marriage - feast : and it was laid to his charge ...
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... act , suffer , and die , without weakness , and without ostentation ? What pre- judice , what blindness must possess the mind of that man , who dares to compare the son of Sophroniscus with the Son of Mary ! What a distance is there ...
... act , suffer , and die , without weakness , and without ostentation ? What pre- judice , what blindness must possess the mind of that man , who dares to compare the son of Sophroniscus with the Son of Mary ! What a distance is there ...
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... act of sucking , by which it is for some time to be nourished , will be performed with more ease , both to the nurse and to the infant , whilst the inside of the mouth and edges of the gums are smooth and soft , than if set with hard ...
... act of sucking , by which it is for some time to be nourished , will be performed with more ease , both to the nurse and to the infant , whilst the inside of the mouth and edges of the gums are smooth and soft , than if set with hard ...
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... act of sucking . It cannot be doubted but that this is a state of gratifi- cation . What else should fix them so close to the ope- ration and so long ? Other species are running about with an alacrity in their motions , which carries ...
... act of sucking . It cannot be doubted but that this is a state of gratifi- cation . What else should fix them so close to the ope- ration and so long ? Other species are running about with an alacrity in their motions , which carries ...
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Page 233 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 233 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 230 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Page 282 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 324 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore The dead which they contained before ; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him...
Page 282 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 324 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 296 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Page 234 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 231 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.