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... storm ; as he has looked at the rainbow spanning the heavens ; as he has climbed the mountain top and gazed on the wide ... passion of her storms and tornadoes , in which his spirit does not sym- pathize . But while nature has sounds of ...
... storm ; as he has looked at the rainbow spanning the heavens ; as he has climbed the mountain top and gazed on the wide ... passion of her storms and tornadoes , in which his spirit does not sym- pathize . But while nature has sounds of ...
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... storms of the elements , and sighings of the wind , and groanings of the earth , and the death of the year , but what are these to the storms of passion , and the sighs of grief , and the groans of despair , and the death of man ? Is ...
... storms of the elements , and sighings of the wind , and groanings of the earth , and the death of the year , but what are these to the storms of passion , and the sighs of grief , and the groans of despair , and the death of man ? Is ...
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... storms of passion be raging , and the waves of faction be heaving and tossing over this mighty ocean ; and there is no human power that can prevent the bark of our liberties from foundering and going down . Then will the sun of the ...
... storms of passion be raging , and the waves of faction be heaving and tossing over this mighty ocean ; and there is no human power that can prevent the bark of our liberties from foundering and going down . Then will the sun of the ...
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Page 169 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 430 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 489 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 240 - 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, TO A BUTTERFLY.
Page 435 - We are made as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things unto this day.— 1 Cor.
Page 159 - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Page 490 - But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Page 107 - Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.
Page 490 - Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city ? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Page 136 - The Sluggard Pity's vision-weaving Tribe ! Who sigh for Wretchedness, yet shun the wretched, Nursing in some delicious solitude Their slothful loves and dainty Sympathies!