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... Scriptures ; to adopt the most eligible measures for the speedy distribution of the copies which had been provided for them by the bounty of the British and Foreign Bible Society ; and to establish a similar institution among " the ...
... Scriptures ; to adopt the most eligible measures for the speedy distribution of the copies which had been provided for them by the bounty of the British and Foreign Bible Society ; and to establish a similar institution among " the ...
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... Scriptures ........................ .. Page 459-496 .......... No. II . - Poem of Thanks from Iceland to the British and Foreign Bible Society , by Sira Jon Thorlakson of Bægisâ , the translator of " Paradise Lost " into Icelandic verse ...
... Scriptures ........................ .. Page 459-496 .......... No. II . - Poem of Thanks from Iceland to the British and Foreign Bible Society , by Sira Jon Thorlakson of Bægisâ , the translator of " Paradise Lost " into Icelandic verse ...
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... quite a different manner . Instead of drawing the matter of their sermons from the Scriptures , they gather it from the writings of heathen philosophers ; and the morality found in these authors , which , at the best , -34 INTRODUCTION .
... quite a different manner . Instead of drawing the matter of their sermons from the Scriptures , they gather it from the writings of heathen philosophers ; and the morality found in these authors , which , at the best , -34 INTRODUCTION .
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... Scriptures ; but it is accounted for by the circumstance , that almost every family is in possession of a volume of excellent sermons , written by Bishop Vidalin of Skalholt , about the beginning of last century , which contains a great ...
... Scriptures ; but it is accounted for by the circumstance , that almost every family is in possession of a volume of excellent sermons , written by Bishop Vidalin of Skalholt , about the beginning of last century , which contains a great ...
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... Scriptures to a termination , and seen the foun- dation laid of a Bible Society for the Danish dominions , on the principles of the British and Foreign Bible Society , I began to make the necessary arrangements for my voyage to Iceland ...
... Scriptures to a termination , and seen the foun- dation laid of a Bible Society for the Danish dominions , on the principles of the British and Foreign Bible Society , I began to make the necessary arrangements for my voyage to Iceland ...
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Page 253 - Other refuge have I none; . Hangs my helpless soul on Thee: Leave, ah, leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me : All my trust on Thee is stay'd, All my help from Thee I bring; Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of Thy wing.
Page 206 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 190 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 137 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Page 378 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts tho' small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Page 171 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 150 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With solid, as the lake with liquid fire...
Page 163 - The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. 27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Page 114 - There cometh One mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Page 230 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?