Discourses on Human LifeDavid Felt, 1841 - 299 pages |
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Page 23
... breath of heaven ; but the holy eventide also , its cooling breeze , its falling shade , its hushed and sober hour ; the sultry noontide , too , and the solemn midnight ; and spring - time and chastening autumn ; and summer that unbars ...
... breath of heaven ; but the holy eventide also , its cooling breeze , its falling shade , its hushed and sober hour ; the sultry noontide , too , and the solemn midnight ; and spring - time and chastening autumn ; and summer that unbars ...
Page 78
... breath of fame . All , of which any human being can say , " it is mine , " is a toy , is a trifle , compared with what God has provided for the great family of his children ! Is he poor to whom the great store - house of nature is ...
... breath of fame . All , of which any human being can say , " it is mine , " is a toy , is a trifle , compared with what God has provided for the great family of his children ! Is he poor to whom the great store - house of nature is ...
Page 108
... breath , and freezes mortal hearts in fear and wonder ; death that quells all human power , and quenches all human pride ; death , " the dread teacher , " the awful admonisher , that tells man of this life's frailty , and of a judgment ...
... breath , and freezes mortal hearts in fear and wonder ; death that quells all human power , and quenches all human pride ; death , " the dread teacher , " the awful admonisher , that tells man of this life's frailty , and of a judgment ...
Page 109
... breath that scarcely stirs the hushed air - that little breath - the wealth of em- pires cannot buy it , nor bring it back for a moment . What a lesson is this to proclaim our own frailty , and a power beyond us ! It is a fearful lesson ...
... breath that scarcely stirs the hushed air - that little breath - the wealth of em- pires cannot buy it , nor bring it back for a moment . What a lesson is this to proclaim our own frailty , and a power beyond us ! It is a fearful lesson ...
Page 142
... breathing hour of time , of this world of dust and shadows ; and , of brightness and beauty , too : for all is good ; all in earth and in heaven , in time and eternity , is good . " Thus , I conceive , might a wise and good man , about ...
... breathing hour of time , of this world of dust and shadows ; and , of brightness and beauty , too : for all is good ; all in earth and in heaven , in time and eternity , is good . " Thus , I conceive , might a wise and good man , about ...
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