Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Bände 5-6James Hamilton James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1856 |
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... characters in the annals of true piety are characters which have grown by degrees , and which have got on by instalments . It is just as true that the men who have " grown in grace " are the men who have " given diligence ; " and that ...
... characters in the annals of true piety are characters which have grown by degrees , and which have got on by instalments . It is just as true that the men who have " grown in grace " are the men who have " given diligence ; " and that ...
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... character is yet to form ; and it is wisdom's part to begin to - day . The visionary may lie upon the beach and lounge away the summer , picturing his Atlantis , - his Elysium rising from the deep ; but the man who is really on the way ...
... character is yet to form ; and it is wisdom's part to begin to - day . The visionary may lie upon the beach and lounge away the summer , picturing his Atlantis , - his Elysium rising from the deep ; but the man who is really on the way ...
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... character . It is to be feared that many persons forfeit their oppor- tunity , and fall short of everlasting life , for want of these two things , -precision and promptitude . Instead of doing something definite , they are content with ...
... character . It is to be feared that many persons forfeit their oppor- tunity , and fall short of everlasting life , for want of these two things , -precision and promptitude . Instead of doing something definite , they are content with ...
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... character ? the patience or the brotherly - kindness , the godliness or the charity ? Or with the red - cross ensign at the head of the mast and the helm in the hand of pre- sumption , are you yielding to the course of this world and ...
... character ? the patience or the brotherly - kindness , the godliness or the charity ? Or with the red - cross ensign at the head of the mast and the helm in the hand of pre- sumption , are you yielding to the course of this world and ...
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... characters , and not a few of them rose to important positions . Although with a scanty capital , he soon embarked in business for himself , and that at a period so trying , owing to the embargo , that many persons were abandoning ...
... characters , and not a few of them rose to important positions . Although with a scanty capital , he soon embarked in business for himself , and that at a period so trying , owing to the embargo , that many persons were abandoning ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 17 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Seite 421 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily ? nay, verily ; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Seite 420 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Seite 111 - 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Seite 110 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Seite 135 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Seite 75 - HE clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Seite 110 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Seite 253 - Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.
Seite 410 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...