Discourses on Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of ReligionC. S. Francis & Company, 1847 - 396 pages |
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... soul , so fatal to all just self - respect , so fatal to all elevated virtue and devotion . We might say that the most ordinary tastes and the most trifling pursuits of man carry , to the observant eye , marks of the nobler mind . We ...
... soul , so fatal to all just self - respect , so fatal to all elevated virtue and devotion . We might say that the most ordinary tastes and the most trifling pursuits of man carry , to the observant eye , marks of the nobler mind . We ...
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... soul for gain , to give his noble brow to the smiting blush of shame , or his cheek to the dead- ly paleness of convicted dishonesty . Yes , it is a deg- radation unutterable , for a man to steep his soul in gross , sensual , besotting ...
... soul for gain , to give his noble brow to the smiting blush of shame , or his cheek to the dead- ly paleness of convicted dishonesty . Yes , it is a deg- radation unutterable , for a man to steep his soul in gross , sensual , besotting ...
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... souls they suppose there may be , in the retired corners of the earth , that are walking in the chains of mechanical habit or superstitious piety , who have not the knowledge to understand nor the courage to seek , what they want . But ...
... souls they suppose there may be , in the retired corners of the earth , that are walking in the chains of mechanical habit or superstitious piety , who have not the knowledge to understand nor the courage to seek , what they want . But ...
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... soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : : it is a power , I repeat , which few possess how evidently does our objector possess it not - and yet without some portion of which , no man should ...
... soul , to open the fountains which custom and ceremony and reserve have sealed up : : it is a power , I repeat , which few possess how evidently does our objector possess it not - and yet without some portion of which , no man should ...
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... soul was not made to be the instrument of sin , but its lofty avenger . The desolated affections , the haggard countenance , the pallid and sunken cheek , the sighings of grief , proclaim that there are ruins indeed , but they pro ...
... soul was not made to be the instrument of sin , but its lofty avenger . The desolated affections , the haggard countenance , the pallid and sunken cheek , the sighings of grief , proclaim that there are ruins indeed , but they pro ...
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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.