The Life of Willbur [sic] Fisk: First President of the Wesleyan UniversityHarper, 1842 - 455 sidor |
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... objects which find a ready response in the reflective mind , especially when accompanied by great sensibility . The house is situated on a considera- ble eminence , overlooking a wide extent of country . Around it the tops of the hills ...
... objects which find a ready response in the reflective mind , especially when accompanied by great sensibility . The house is situated on a considera- ble eminence , overlooking a wide extent of country . Around it the tops of the hills ...
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... objects of a young man who is hoping to rise to any degree of eminence and usefulness in life . “ Thirdly . His strict regard to his regimen . This , as he himself relates , contributed much , not only to the preserva- tion of his ...
... objects of a young man who is hoping to rise to any degree of eminence and usefulness in life . “ Thirdly . His strict regard to his regimen . This , as he himself relates , contributed much , not only to the preserva- tion of his ...
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... object so true to the original , that I have had an idea of it as vividly distinct as though it had been delineated on canvass before me by the pencil of some mighty master of the graphic art . Can language do more than this ? " He had ...
... object so true to the original , that I have had an idea of it as vividly distinct as though it had been delineated on canvass before me by the pencil of some mighty master of the graphic art . Can language do more than this ? " He had ...
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... object . He had not a sufficient assurance that he was " inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon- him the ... objects of study while in college , as we have seen , were governed by this intention . Yet , as the period approached ...
... object . He had not a sufficient assurance that he was " inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon- him the ... objects of study while in college , as we have seen , were governed by this intention . Yet , as the period approached ...
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... object is then subjected to secondary or tertiary . The claims of immortality must wait the bid- ding of mundane interests and convenience ; whereas it is one of the first lessons of the New Testament to subordinate every claim ...
... object is then subjected to secondary or tertiary . The claims of immortality must wait the bid- ding of mundane interests and convenience ; whereas it is one of the first lessons of the New Testament to subordinate every claim ...
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The Life of Willbur [sic] Fisk: First President of the Wesleyan University Joseph Holdich Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
The Life of Willbur [sic] Fisk: First President of the Wesleyan University Joseph Holdich Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
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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.