Some Reminiscences of a Long Life: With a Few Articles on Moral and Social Subjects of Present InterestBelknap & Warfield, 1899 - 351 pages |
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Page 149 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 308 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 'chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 292 - For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Page 289 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet : and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry : for this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 247 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 308 - God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; and the base things of the world, and the things that are...
Page 299 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 202 - Passed down the mountain path, and found the field, Took from his store of sheaves a generous third, And added them unto his brother's heap ; Then he went back to sleep and happy dreams. So the next morning-, with the early sun, The brothers rose, and went out to their toil ; And when they came to see the heavy sheaves, Each wondered in his heart to find his heap, Though he had given a third, was still the same. Now the next night went Zimri to the field, Took from his store of sheaves a generous...
Page 200 - ABRAM and Zimri owned a field together— A level field hid in a happy vale. They plowed it with one plow, and in the spring Sowed, walking side by side, the fruitful seed. In harvest, when the glad earth smiled with grain, Each carried to his home one half the sheaves, And stored them with much labor in his barns.
Page 145 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : it is always unknown ; it is different in different men ; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst it is every vice, folly, and passion, to which human nature is liable.'*- — Lord Camden.