The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 151848 |
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... moral and theological sentiments . The examples chosen are not such as display the greatest beauty and purity , but those which best illustrate his descriptions of distinctions in manner of execution or mechanical peculiarities . After ...
... moral and theological sentiments . The examples chosen are not such as display the greatest beauty and purity , but those which best illustrate his descriptions of distinctions in manner of execution or mechanical peculiarities . After ...
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... morally tied to these regions - so shock- ing to the sensibilities would it be to sit down to the good fare of Christmas - day under the full blaze of a sun which made it requisite that all culinary operations , or even all the arrange ...
... morally tied to these regions - so shock- ing to the sensibilities would it be to sit down to the good fare of Christmas - day under the full blaze of a sun which made it requisite that all culinary operations , or even all the arrange ...
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... moral responsibilities . The first step in this higher treatment of what is bestowed upon us , will consist partly ... morally due to himself , to his country , and to the native inhabitants with whom he had to deal , and that in most ...
... moral responsibilities . The first step in this higher treatment of what is bestowed upon us , will consist partly ... morally due to himself , to his country , and to the native inhabitants with whom he had to deal , and that in most ...
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... moral power and resolute will well known to belong to his cause . The only way to bring out the powers of a man , is to place confidence in him to perform his appointed task . It is the sign of a great statesman , or a great leader in ...
... moral power and resolute will well known to belong to his cause . The only way to bring out the powers of a man , is to place confidence in him to perform his appointed task . It is the sign of a great statesman , or a great leader in ...
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... moral pre - eminence has taken the place of sword and bayonet ; but those weapons of blood have been but too active , and where they have been used in any but the cause of just vengeance , we may boast indeed of a conquest over the ...
... moral pre - eminence has taken the place of sword and bayonet ; but those weapons of blood have been but too active , and where they have been used in any but the cause of just vengeance , we may boast indeed of a conquest over the ...
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Page 99 - They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 305 - Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply...
Page 304 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 304 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 296 - Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that cannot heal, Even as sleep our eyes doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art.
Page 297 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 79 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, , whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
Page 76 - IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Page 151 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 446 - William, By Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan...