Discourses on Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of ReligionC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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... mystery , because he is acquainted with notes and bonds , with cards and compliments . How completely , then , is this man disqualified from judging of human nature ! There is a power , which few possess , which none have attained in ...
... mystery , because he is acquainted with notes and bonds , with cards and compliments . How completely , then , is this man disqualified from judging of human nature ! There is a power , which few possess , which none have attained in ...
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... mysterious shrine from which their revealings flash forth , " the human face divine ; " bereaving the world of more than half its beauty ! Can you ever behold sullenness clouding the clear , fair brow of childhood , or the flushed cheek ...
... mysterious shrine from which their revealings flash forth , " the human face divine ; " bereaving the world of more than half its beauty ! Can you ever behold sullenness clouding the clear , fair brow of childhood , or the flushed cheek ...
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... mystery , and agony , and rapture . Yes , rapture as well as agony ; the rapture of love , of re- ciprocated affection , of hope , of joy , of prayer ; and the agony of pain , of loss , of bereavement ; and over all their strugglings ...
... mystery , and agony , and rapture . Yes , rapture as well as agony ; the rapture of love , of re- ciprocated affection , of hope , of joy , of prayer ; and the agony of pain , of loss , of bereavement ; and over all their strugglings ...
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... mystery and grandeur , lies beneath all this common place of life ; yes , and to arouse even the most irreligious worldliness , by the awfulness and majesty that are around it . As I have seen a rude peasant from the Appenines , falling ...
... mystery and grandeur , lies beneath all this common place of life ; yes , and to arouse even the most irreligious worldliness , by the awfulness and majesty that are around it . As I have seen a rude peasant from the Appenines , falling ...
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... mystery , spread over you ; and no voice ever pierced it ? Is not eternity enthroned amidst yonder starry heights ; and no utterance , no word ever came from those far - lying and silent spaces ? Oh ! it is strange - to think of that ...
... mystery , spread over you ; and no voice ever pierced it ? Is not eternity enthroned amidst yonder starry heights ; and no utterance , no word ever came from those far - lying and silent spaces ? Oh ! it is strange - to think of that ...
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Page 314 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 277 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 89 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 306 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 85 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 254 - Oh Grave ! where is thy Victory ? Oh Death ! where is thy Sting ? THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
Page 244 - Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it Thee.
Page 349 - Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; seek peace and pursue it.
Page 261 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil ;
Page 158 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.