The Western Journal, Volume 7M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1851 |
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... persons , who have been upon the prairies in the winter , that , like rabbits and squirrels , they issue from their abodes every soft day ; and therefore lay up , no doubt , a hord of hay ( as there is rarely anything else to be found ...
... persons , who have been upon the prairies in the winter , that , like rabbits and squirrels , they issue from their abodes every soft day ; and therefore lay up , no doubt , a hord of hay ( as there is rarely anything else to be found ...
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... person who had taste and opportunity to study the " domestic manners " of these free- born citizens of the desert . They are said to be a very social people , and moreover , not bigotted in their ideas of aristocratic exclusiveness ...
... person who had taste and opportunity to study the " domestic manners " of these free- born citizens of the desert . They are said to be a very social people , and moreover , not bigotted in their ideas of aristocratic exclusiveness ...
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... person of highly cultivated feeling , and against so high an authority it should be remarked with extreme delicacy and firm assurance , that there is something lacking in this definition ; for there are ideas and emotions of a moral ...
... person of highly cultivated feeling , and against so high an authority it should be remarked with extreme delicacy and firm assurance , that there is something lacking in this definition ; for there are ideas and emotions of a moral ...
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... person of John Bunyan , while he was in prison and before he wrote his radiant work- the Pilgrim's Progress , were of this order . The Holy Writings only are translated into more languages than the Pilgrim's Progress . It appears to ...
... person of John Bunyan , while he was in prison and before he wrote his radiant work- the Pilgrim's Progress , were of this order . The Holy Writings only are translated into more languages than the Pilgrim's Progress . It appears to ...
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... person as if the very air of pure Christian virtue were being breathed around him . These beauties in the Greek Slave are the main principles of the glory with which it is honored , and the combination of these different kinds of beauty ...
... person as if the very air of pure Christian virtue were being breathed around him . These beauties in the Greek Slave are the main principles of the glory with which it is honored , and the combination of these different kinds of beauty ...
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Page 414 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 136 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 339 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 119 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 194 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 198 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 276 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 344 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 195 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 276 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.