Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life |
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... future now , but death : Then come and let me gloom upon the past.- So then - Numidia's lost ; those daring projects-- ( Projects that ne'er were breathed to mortal man , That would have startled Marius on his car ) , O'erthrown ...
... future now , but death : Then come and let me gloom upon the past.- So then - Numidia's lost ; those daring projects-- ( Projects that ne'er were breathed to mortal man , That would have startled Marius on his car ) , O'erthrown ...
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... future offspring gaze , To them our grateful heart shall sound thy praise . To Britain's generous aid these plains we owe , For us she drew the sword , and bent the bow . We sunk , we crouch'd beneath a tyrant's hand— Victorious Britain ...
... future offspring gaze , To them our grateful heart shall sound thy praise . To Britain's generous aid these plains we owe , For us she drew the sword , and bent the bow . We sunk , we crouch'd beneath a tyrant's hand— Victorious Britain ...
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... future celebrity . Two of those which obtained medals in the Historical Society shall be given here at full length , and such parts of his speech on opening the sessions as the editor has been able to collect THE REV . C. WOLFE . 47.
... future celebrity . Two of those which obtained medals in the Historical Society shall be given here at full length , and such parts of his speech on opening the sessions as the editor has been able to collect THE REV . C. WOLFE . 47.
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... future sorrows of the world ; And all the miseries of the human race , From age to age , rehearsed their parts before him ; Though he beheld the fall of gasping Rome , Crush'd by descending Vandals ; though he heard The shriek of Poland ...
... future sorrows of the world ; And all the miseries of the human race , From age to age , rehearsed their parts before him ; Though he beheld the fall of gasping Rome , Crush'd by descending Vandals ; though he heard The shriek of Poland ...
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... future ages have consecrated was forgotten ; and neglect was embittered by remembered celebrity . Age was advancing- Health was retreating - Nature hid her face from him for ever , for never more to him re- turned- " Day , or the sweet ...
... future ages have consecrated was forgotten ; and neglect was embittered by remembered celebrity . Age was advancing- Health was retreating - Nature hid her face from him for ever , for never more to him re- turned- " Day , or the sweet ...
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Page 333 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 296 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 344 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 432 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 79 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 446 - God is faithful, who will not suffer" us " to be tempted above that" we " are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that " we
Page 230 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 42 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook That I must look in vain ! But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid ; And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary ! thou art dead...
Page 255 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Page 423 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance...