Meditations and ContemplationsPhillips, Sampson and Company, 1853 - Всего страниц: 400 |
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... ness of the Author of nature , and in illustrating the wis- dom of his sacred Word . About this time he attempted to learn the Hebrew language , without any other help than the Westminster Grammar ; but the unexpected difficulties ...
... ness of the Author of nature , and in illustrating the wis- dom of his sacred Word . About this time he attempted to learn the Hebrew language , without any other help than the Westminster Grammar ; but the unexpected difficulties ...
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... ness he did not wish to captivate by the elegance of his language , or the display of the variety and the ex- tent of his learning ; but to inform the most ignorant , to interest the careless , and to do good to all . In catechising the ...
... ness he did not wish to captivate by the elegance of his language , or the display of the variety and the ex- tent of his learning ; but to inform the most ignorant , to interest the careless , and to do good to all . In catechising the ...
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... ness , had prepared the marriage bed ! had decked it with the richest covers , and dressed it in pillows of down ? When - oh ! trust not in youth , or strength , or in any thing mortal ; for there is nothing certain , nothing to be ...
... ness , had prepared the marriage bed ! had decked it with the richest covers , and dressed it in pillows of down ? When - oh ! trust not in youth , or strength , or in any thing mortal ; for there is nothing certain , nothing to be ...
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... ness , to depart at a moment's warning . Without such an habitual readiness , we are like wretches that sleep on the top of a mast while a horrid gulf yawns , or furious waves rage below . And where can be the peace , what the ...
... ness , to depart at a moment's warning . Without such an habitual readiness , we are like wretches that sleep on the top of a mast while a horrid gulf yawns , or furious waves rage below . And where can be the peace , what the ...
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... ness , and to be secure from fear of evil . No- Here , a small and plain stone is placed upon the ground ; purchased , one would imagine , from the little fund , and formed by the hand of frugality itself . thing costly not one ...
... ness , and to be secure from fear of evil . No- Here , a small and plain stone is placed upon the ground ; purchased , one would imagine , from the little fund , and formed by the hand of frugality itself . thing costly not one ...
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Стр. 48 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Стр. 266 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Стр. 276 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Стр. 194 - 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.
Стр. 166 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Стр. 105 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Стр. 109 - You must know, Sir, that I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the fall.
Стр. 103 - How shocking must thy summons be, O Death ! To him that is at ease in his possessions ; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain...
Стр. 386 - remember, I know in whom I have believed, and that He holds the winds in his fist, and the waters in the hollow of his hand.
Стр. 136 - Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove. What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweet.