Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volume 1James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1854 |
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... thought and speech , we may be constrained to distinguish one perfection from another ; but as they exist in the Godhead these attributes are a glorious unity . The wisdom is the forethought of goodness , and the retributions are the ...
... thought and speech , we may be constrained to distinguish one perfection from another ; but as they exist in the Godhead these attributes are a glorious unity . The wisdom is the forethought of goodness , and the retributions are the ...
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... thought , Well , we were not kings before either ; we must venture now , lose or win . So the poor Ass leapt , and — plash - there he lay , like a log , in the middle of the stream . Then the Lion came to the bank , and said ...
... thought , Well , we were not kings before either ; we must venture now , lose or win . So the poor Ass leapt , and — plash - there he lay , like a log , in the middle of the stream . Then the Lion came to the bank , and said ...
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... thought it an odd thing that the same word , which , when heard as a wild cry through the wooded wil- dernesses of New Holland , excites the natives to the use of that murderous weapon called the boomerang , should now , in many courtly ...
... thought it an odd thing that the same word , which , when heard as a wild cry through the wooded wil- dernesses of New Holland , excites the natives to the use of that murderous weapon called the boomerang , should now , in many courtly ...
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... thought . The late Flemish pictures , shallow in conception and obscene in subject , are always sober in colour ; while the early religious painting of the Flemings is as brilliant in hue as it is holy in thought . The Bellinis ...
... thought . The late Flemish pictures , shallow in conception and obscene in subject , are always sober in colour ; while the early religious painting of the Flemings is as brilliant in hue as it is holy in thought . The Bellinis ...
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... thought . His pictures are simply so many pieces of jewellery , the colours of the draperies being perfectly pure , as various as those of a painted window , chastened only by paleness , and relieved upon a golden ground . Salvator was ...
... thought . His pictures are simply so many pieces of jewellery , the colours of the draperies being perfectly pure , as various as those of a painted window , chastened only by paleness , and relieved upon a golden ground . Salvator was ...
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Page 392 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 81 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 414 - And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Page 415 - When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick : 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Page 283 - All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Page 268 - Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 323 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. * He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Page 120 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 143 - He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 204 - Seeing then that we have a great High-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.