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... give you rest . " " 6 One day , being deeply distressed , he retired , with the sacred volume , into the recesses of a garden . His agitation increased , and prostrat- ing himself beneath a fig - tree , he cried , in a voice broken with ...
... give you rest . " " 6 One day , being deeply distressed , he retired , with the sacred volume , into the recesses of a garden . His agitation increased , and prostrat- ing himself beneath a fig - tree , he cried , in a voice broken with ...
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... give a foretaste of the happiness of heaven . Once as they were seated at an open case- ment where the Tiber mingled its waters with the sea , while they gazed into a fair garden , and inhaled its delicious fragrance , soft twilight ...
... give a foretaste of the happiness of heaven . Once as they were seated at an open case- ment where the Tiber mingled its waters with the sea , while they gazed into a fair garden , and inhaled its delicious fragrance , soft twilight ...
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... into conformity with thine own will ? " It is evidence of true wisdom not to be precipitate in our actions , nor inflexible in our opinions ; and it is a part of the same wisdom not to give hasty credit 50 EXAMPLES OF LIFE AND DEATH .
... into conformity with thine own will ? " It is evidence of true wisdom not to be precipitate in our actions , nor inflexible in our opinions ; and it is a part of the same wisdom not to give hasty credit 50 EXAMPLES OF LIFE AND DEATH .
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Lydia Howard Sigourney. part of the same wisdom not to give hasty credit to every word that is spoken , nor immediately to commu- nicate to others what we have heard , or what we believe . " " Presume not upon the success of thine own ...
Lydia Howard Sigourney. part of the same wisdom not to give hasty credit to every word that is spoken , nor immediately to commu- nicate to others what we have heard , or what we believe . " " Presume not upon the success of thine own ...
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... gives proof that he was a wise adviser , and an eloquent writer . When about to go into exile from his land , without even the privilege of bidding farewell to his family , and perhaps , impressed with premonitory fears , that those who ...
... gives proof that he was a wise adviser , and an eloquent writer . When about to go into exile from his land , without even the privilege of bidding farewell to his family , and perhaps , impressed with premonitory fears , that those who ...
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Page 89 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 75 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 87 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 203 - I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 83 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 47 - Have mercy upon me, O God, According to thy loving kindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies Blot out my transgressions.
Page 69 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 141 - My soul prays to God for thee, that thou mayest stand in the day of trial, that thy children may be blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by his power.
Page 121 - First. Let nothing in this world tempt you to wrong your conscience ; so you will keep peace at home, which will be a feast to you in the day of trouble.