The Works of Joseph Stevens Buckminster: With Memoirs of His Life, Volume 2J. Munroe, 1839 - Congregational churches |
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... allow me to follow you a few steps . The first fact , which shows us how little our present situ- ation is the result of our own arrangements , is the innu- merable defeats every man's plans encounter . I appeal to any one who has lived ...
... allow me to follow you a few steps . The first fact , which shows us how little our present situ- ation is the result of our own arrangements , is the innu- merable defeats every man's plans encounter . I appeal to any one who has lived ...
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... allowed to have their first wish , would place themselves immediately in the possession of wealth . few might be found of moderate desires , but most men would rush , at once , into opulence , under the vain expecta- tion , that they ...
... allowed to have their first wish , would place themselves immediately in the possession of wealth . few might be found of moderate desires , but most men would rush , at once , into opulence , under the vain expecta- tion , that they ...
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... allowed another trial . Your ruling passion , then , is fame . Let my life , you say , be short , if it be but brilliant . I will live , though but for an hour here , yet will I live in the admiration of posterity ; though seen and ...
... allowed another trial . Your ruling passion , then , is fame . Let my life , you say , be short , if it be but brilliant . I will live , though but for an hour here , yet will I live in the admiration of posterity ; though seen and ...
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... allowed to choose our future lot , we should all prefer some change from our present situation . This man would put himself forward a step in the ranks of society , and that would grasp at a little more power ; one would seek , as we ...
... allowed to choose our future lot , we should all prefer some change from our present situation . This man would put himself forward a step in the ranks of society , and that would grasp at a little more power ; one would seek , as we ...
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... allowed to fashion his own reputation , he would be distinguished for an excessive sensibility which feels a stain as it would a wound . Influenced by the contemplation of imaginary characters , he endeavors to form himself after the 3 ...
... allowed to fashion his own reputation , he would be distinguished for an excessive sensibility which feels a stain as it would a wound . Influenced by the contemplation of imaginary characters , he endeavors to form himself after the 3 ...
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Page 125 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 386 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 315 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 309 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Page 375 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 376 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 206 - Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Page 32 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page x - Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
Page xi - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.