Memorials from journals and letters of Samuel Clark, ed. by his wife [E.J.H. Clark].Macmillan and Company, 1878 - 337 pages |
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... nearly thirty years , the quiet deliberate definiteness of the words , of which I think I may say that I never heard one with inattentive ear - not one used to seem to me super- fluous , and not one incomplete . He seemed always reading ...
... nearly thirty years , the quiet deliberate definiteness of the words , of which I think I may say that I never heard one with inattentive ear - not one used to seem to me super- fluous , and not one incomplete . He seemed always reading ...
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... nearly one thousand had been under his tuition . Among those who consulted him in after years , some who at college had given him much trouble and seemed almost incorrigible , turned out in after life useful and valuable masters , and ...
... nearly one thousand had been under his tuition . Among those who consulted him in after years , some who at college had given him much trouble and seemed almost incorrigible , turned out in after life useful and valuable masters , and ...
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... nearly as I can remember , and it was in this that I first felt an enthusiastic ardour , which I always feel for the uppermost science . Perhaps this is one of the greatest defects of my mind ; I can with difficulty pursue two things at ...
... nearly as I can remember , and it was in this that I first felt an enthusiastic ardour , which I always feel for the uppermost science . Perhaps this is one of the greatest defects of my mind ; I can with difficulty pursue two things at ...
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... nearly as my judgment goes - obstinacy , indolence , a love of truth , pedantry , a general love of knowledge , romance , and a dislike of secular engagements . I was placed in my father's business , to change Horace and Virgil for ...
... nearly as my judgment goes - obstinacy , indolence , a love of truth , pedantry , a general love of knowledge , romance , and a dislike of secular engagements . I was placed in my father's business , to change Horace and Virgil for ...
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... nearly five years . I first undertook the office with those mixed and uncertain views that fill up the mind of an enthusiastic lad of nineteen . On good grounds , valuing the object for which the Institution was formed ; proud of the ...
... nearly five years . I first undertook the office with those mixed and uncertain views that fill up the mind of an enthusiastic lad of nineteen . On good grounds , valuing the object for which the Institution was formed ; proud of the ...
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Page 138 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 91 - Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Page 72 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 90 - Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Page 243 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Page 47 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Page 97 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 97 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 91 - For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
Page 318 - God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.