The Thorough Business Man: Memoirs of Walter Powell, Merchant, Melbourne and LondonStrahan, 1872 - 382 Seiten |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 314 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Seite 65 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Seite 93 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Seite 274 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Seite 8 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 42 - My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness...
Seite 175 - It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Seite 209 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Seite 12 - I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Seite 38 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.