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... thousand fables which we must otherwise have been content to re- ceive as truth ; added to which , they exhibit specimens of the higher branches of compo- sition , unparalleled in any other productions , ancient or modern ; and some ...
... thousand fables which we must otherwise have been content to re- ceive as truth ; added to which , they exhibit specimens of the higher branches of compo- sition , unparalleled in any other productions , ancient or modern ; and some ...
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... thousand . pictures to the heart and imagination . Exa- mine him , then , in his wanderings , and in his subsequent prosperity as king of Israel ; - you will find the heroic traits still strong upon his character . Observe his ...
... thousand . pictures to the heart and imagination . Exa- mine him , then , in his wanderings , and in his subsequent prosperity as king of Israel ; - you will find the heroic traits still strong upon his character . Observe his ...
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... thousand thrones , Who strewed our earth with hostile bones , And can he thus survive ? Since he , miscalled the morning star , Nor man , nor fiend , hath fallen so far . " " He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , is ...
... thousand thrones , Who strewed our earth with hostile bones , And can he thus survive ? Since he , miscalled the morning star , Nor man , nor fiend , hath fallen so far . " " He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , is ...
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... thousand years . Moses knew by the law , that the Lord was merciful , gracious , and long - suffering , but he knew not the plenitude of " grace and truth " revealed by Jesus Christ . Jacob recognized him as " the angel who delivered ...
... thousand years . Moses knew by the law , that the Lord was merciful , gracious , and long - suffering , but he knew not the plenitude of " grace and truth " revealed by Jesus Christ . Jacob recognized him as " the angel who delivered ...
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... thousands of his saints , and above all , the " fiery law in his right hand , " make you tremble to avouch this God as your God ; how will it calm your trembling to realize that very God after- wards displayed on another Mount in the ...
... thousands of his saints , and above all , the " fiery law in his right hand , " make you tremble to avouch this God as your God ; how will it calm your trembling to realize that very God after- wards displayed on another Mount in the ...
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Page 115 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 238 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 239 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 15 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Page 51 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Page 30 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 22 - But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Page 23 - Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Page 187 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.