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... interest and relationship in their ministry . A well regulated class of preachers of this kind , " for the stray sheep of the house of Israel , " is much to be desiderated ; a class of orthodox preachers , connected with the National ...
... interest and relationship in their ministry . A well regulated class of preachers of this kind , " for the stray sheep of the house of Israel , " is much to be desiderated ; a class of orthodox preachers , connected with the National ...
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... interest both tragical and historical . The collection com- mences in point of date with some habiliments once worn by Gustavus Ericson Vasa ; and after exhibiting innumerable dresses which have during succeeding ages adorned every one ...
... interest both tragical and historical . The collection com- mences in point of date with some habiliments once worn by Gustavus Ericson Vasa ; and after exhibiting innumerable dresses which have during succeeding ages adorned every one ...
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... interest , as being the oldest city of Sweden , and having , it is believed , been founded by the immortal Odin , on his arrival in this country from the confines of Asia , about a hundred years before the Christian era . The history of ...
... interest , as being the oldest city of Sweden , and having , it is believed , been founded by the immortal Odin , on his arrival in this country from the confines of Asia , about a hundred years before the Christian era . The history of ...
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... interest on the contention , I cannot now recur without a shudder to the narrowness of my escape from impending ruin . But I was about to describe my parents ; and , first , my father : - Bob Pike , or , as he styled himself upon ...
... interest on the contention , I cannot now recur without a shudder to the narrowness of my escape from impending ruin . But I was about to describe my parents ; and , first , my father : - Bob Pike , or , as he styled himself upon ...
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... interest that I felt in him . Eustace Weston was seldom gay ; young as he was , he had known the deepest affliction , -loss of parents , loss of the brightest prospects , and , therefore , loss of friends . He was the only boy I ever ...
... interest that I felt in him . Eustace Weston was seldom gay ; young as he was , he had known the deepest affliction , -loss of parents , loss of the brightest prospects , and , therefore , loss of friends . He was the only boy I ever ...
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Page 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.