The Life of Willbur [sic] Fisk: First President of the Wesleyan University

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Harper, 1842 - 455 sidor

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Sida 421 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Sida 426 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Sida 287 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory...
Sida 441 - Happy, if with my latest breath I may but gasp his name ; Preach him to all, and cry in death, "Behold, behold the Lamb!
Sida 82 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Sida 52 - Be diligent. Never be unemployed. Never be triflingly employed. Neither spend any more time at any place than is strictly necessary.' We fear there is altogether a fault in this matter, and that few of us are clear. Which of...
Sida 154 - Nothing on earth I call my own ; A stranger, to the world unknown, . I all their goods despise : I trample on their whole delight, And seek a city out of sight, A country in the skies. There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home ; For me my elder brethren stay, And angels beckon me away, And Jesus bids me come.
Sida 8 - OF CHEMISTRY ; Including the most Recent Discoveries and Applications of the Science to Medicine and Pharmacy, and to the Arts. By ROBERT KANE, MDMRIA, Professor of Natural Philosophy to the Royal Dublin Society.
Sida 25 - To whom he might confess the things he saw. So the foundations of his mind were laid. In such communion, not from terror free. While yet a Child, and long before his time, He had perceived the presence and the power Of greatness...
Sida 79 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.

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