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... of language . ADVICE TO THE UPSTART . Whoever thou art that hast become rich from great poverty , use thy good fortune with modera- tion . EVERYTHING HUMAN PERISHES . Can we wonder that men perish 121 AUSONIUS . AUSONIUS. ...
... of language . ADVICE TO THE UPSTART . Whoever thou art that hast become rich from great poverty , use thy good fortune with modera- tion . EVERYTHING HUMAN PERISHES . Can we wonder that men perish 121 AUSONIUS . AUSONIUS. ...
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Craufurd Tait Ramage. EVERYTHING HUMAN PERISHES . Can we wonder that men perish and are forgot- ten when their noblest and most enduring works decay ? Death comes even to monumental struct- ures , and oblivion rests on the most ...
Craufurd Tait Ramage. EVERYTHING HUMAN PERISHES . Can we wonder that men perish and are forgot- ten when their noblest and most enduring works decay ? Death comes even to monumental struct- ures , and oblivion rests on the most ...
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... . THOU SHALT NOT KILL . The connection of blood is of great power . It is a most undeniable portent and prodigy that there should be one having the human shape , who should so exceed the beasts in savage nature as to CICERO . 29.
... . THOU SHALT NOT KILL . The connection of blood is of great power . It is a most undeniable portent and prodigy that there should be one having the human shape , who should so exceed the beasts in savage nature as to CICERO . 29.
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... human , to forgive divine . " And still more beautifully Burns ( " Address to the Unco Guid " ) : - " Then gently scan your brother man , Still gentler , sister woman ; Though they may gang a ' kennin ' wrang , To step aside is human ...
... human , to forgive divine . " And still more beautifully Burns ( " Address to the Unco Guid " ) : - " Then gently scan your brother man , Still gentler , sister woman ; Though they may gang a ' kennin ' wrang , To step aside is human ...
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... human affairs . WHAT MAKES MEN EQUAL TO GOD . To conquer our inclinations , to curb our angry feelings , to be moderate in the hour of victory , not merely to raise a fallen adversary , distinguished for noble birth , genius and virtue ...
... human affairs . WHAT MAKES MEN EQUAL TO GOD . To conquer our inclinations , to curb our angry feelings , to be moderate in the hour of victory , not merely to raise a fallen adversary , distinguished for noble birth , genius and virtue ...
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Page 30 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 178 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 39 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 549 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 131 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 580 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 196 - 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 189 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak...