The elocutionist, a collection of pieces in prose and verse [by various authors, ed.] by J.S. KnowlesJames Sheridan Knowles 1825 |
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Page xvii
... hath be- stowed on us , that we should be called the sons of God ! therefore , the world knoweth us ' not , because it knew him ' not . INTERROGATION . Rule IV . - Questions asked by pronouns or adverbs , end with the falling inflection ...
... hath be- stowed on us , that we should be called the sons of God ! therefore , the world knoweth us ' not , because it knew him ' not . INTERROGATION . Rule IV . - Questions asked by pronouns or adverbs , end with the falling inflection ...
Page 52
... hath forgot- ten the lessons of his youth ? " He had not forgotten them - there was no need for the repentant sinner to lift up his eyes from his bed - side . The sacred stream of the gospel had worn a channel in his heart , and the ...
... hath forgot- ten the lessons of his youth ? " He had not forgotten them - there was no need for the repentant sinner to lift up his eyes from his bed - side . The sacred stream of the gospel had worn a channel in his heart , and the ...
Page 68
... hath been to some the last hour . Without order , too , is the manner of death's ap- proach . The king of terrors wears a thousand forms ; pains and diseases , a numerous and a direful train , compose his host . Marking out unhappy man ...
... hath been to some the last hour . Without order , too , is the manner of death's ap- proach . The king of terrors wears a thousand forms ; pains and diseases , a numerous and a direful train , compose his host . Marking out unhappy man ...
Page 75
... hath corrupted the whole capacity of the mind ; when sin , by its frequency and its duration , is woven into the very essence of the soul , and is be come part of ourselves ; when the sense of moral good and evil is almost totally ...
... hath corrupted the whole capacity of the mind ; when sin , by its frequency and its duration , is woven into the very essence of the soul , and is be come part of ourselves ; when the sense of moral good and evil is almost totally ...
Page 86
... hath not brought himself into this sinful and miserable state , who hath held fast his innocence and integrity in the midst of a degenerate world ; or if , in some unguarded hour , he hath been betrayed into an imprudent step , or ...
... hath not brought himself into this sinful and miserable state , who hath held fast his innocence and integrity in the midst of a degenerate world ; or if , in some unguarded hour , he hath been betrayed into an imprudent step , or ...
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