The Guardian, Volumes 6-7H. Harbaugh, 1855 - Conduct of life |
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... side , I saw a spacious plain , It seemed much like a chequer - board , Tho ' not alike the twain : The one , o'erhung by gloomy shades , Without one brilliant ray , The only light by mortals seen Seemed like to dawn of day- The other ...
... side , I saw a spacious plain , It seemed much like a chequer - board , Tho ' not alike the twain : The one , o'erhung by gloomy shades , Without one brilliant ray , The only light by mortals seen Seemed like to dawn of day- The other ...
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... side . If it is a child's primmer they are equally interested . If it is an almanac , they will read over the weather tables , and the sittings of the courts for the year . A genuine random reader would not even stop if he should open a ...
... side . If it is a child's primmer they are equally interested . If it is an almanac , they will read over the weather tables , and the sittings of the courts for the year . A genuine random reader would not even stop if he should open a ...
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... side , but now she feels herself every pang , and her heart echoes every groan . Now she looks upon his enemies with deep pity , and is ready to join the Saviour's prayer , " Father , forgive them , they know not what they do . " " With ...
... side , but now she feels herself every pang , and her heart echoes every groan . Now she looks upon his enemies with deep pity , and is ready to join the Saviour's prayer , " Father , forgive them , they know not what they do . " " With ...
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... side is Mary Magdalene ! How strikingly does her faith contrast with the other disciples . She followed him , not by loud professions but by silent deeds of faith ; and now she follows him to the cross in the face of danger . She knows ...
... side is Mary Magdalene ! How strikingly does her faith contrast with the other disciples . She followed him , not by loud professions but by silent deeds of faith ; and now she follows him to the cross in the face of danger . She knows ...
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... side , was at length brought to exclaim , with the most child - like faith , " My Lord , and my God ! " How different from this , in quantity at least , was the faith of Mary Magdalene . Her faith was constant and steady like the bright ...
... side , was at length brought to exclaim , with the most child - like faith , " My Lord , and my God ! " How different from this , in quantity at least , was the faith of Mary Magdalene . Her faith was constant and steady like the bright ...
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Page 167 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature, not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 55 - For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Page 167 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 321 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Page 203 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 208 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 240 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 324 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 201 - One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others greet thee ; Shadows passing through the land.
Page 37 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!