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... pleasure , in the perusal of it . For my part , I know not when I have read a piece that has more affected meso noble and just are the sentiments - so warm and animated the language . " In the year 1759 , the Author was recommended to ...
... pleasure , in the perusal of it . For my part , I know not when I have read a piece that has more affected meso noble and just are the sentiments - so warm and animated the language . " In the year 1759 , the Author was recommended to ...
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... pleasure for us ; and that what alone can alleviate its evils , or make its goods give us any substantial joy , is a frequent reflection on the present state of things , and the drawing near to God , in holy remembrance of his adorable ...
... pleasure for us ; and that what alone can alleviate its evils , or make its goods give us any substantial joy , is a frequent reflection on the present state of things , and the drawing near to God , in holy remembrance of his adorable ...
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... pleasure is but toil , And who could bear a constant feast ? Sometimes thy chast'ning hand employ , Gently to rouse us , not to pain ! Sometimes let sorrow prove our joy , And scatter folly's noisy train ! Oft let us drop a pensive tear ...
... pleasure is but toil , And who could bear a constant feast ? Sometimes thy chast'ning hand employ , Gently to rouse us , not to pain ! Sometimes let sorrow prove our joy , And scatter folly's noisy train ! Oft let us drop a pensive tear ...
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... pleasure for the house of mourning , and to bedew its sacred recesses with tears of grati- tude to their memory - in these serious and enten- dered moments , we are feelingly alive to the charms of virtue and dictates of religion . We ...
... pleasure for the house of mourning , and to bedew its sacred recesses with tears of grati- tude to their memory - in these serious and enten- dered moments , we are feelingly alive to the charms of virtue and dictates of religion . We ...
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... pleasure with rapid and heedless steps ; till at length , beneath the roses , with which we thought the way to be ... pleasures of this life , adventitious or real , are not far over - balanced by its temptations , its snares , and ...
... pleasure with rapid and heedless steps ; till at length , beneath the roses , with which we thought the way to be ... pleasures of this life , adventitious or real , are not far over - balanced by its temptations , its snares , and ...
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Page 165 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 177 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 159 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 161 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man ; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Page 161 - The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire ; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 48 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 157 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 82 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Page 83 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 20 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.