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... action , as if none on earth were greater than himself , yet with that simplicity as if he were the meanest of mankind . The applause of men he courts not , -sufficient to him is the approbation of God . Amid the dense cloud of smoke ...
... action , as if none on earth were greater than himself , yet with that simplicity as if he were the meanest of mankind . The applause of men he courts not , -sufficient to him is the approbation of God . Amid the dense cloud of smoke ...
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... action , and raising the tone of feeling , of pity , of love , and of adoration , to a pitch that all the energy of men's minds , or the exercise of their talents , could never have reached . It unites man to Deity , and renovates that ...
... action , and raising the tone of feeling , of pity , of love , and of adoration , to a pitch that all the energy of men's minds , or the exercise of their talents , could never have reached . It unites man to Deity , and renovates that ...
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Andrew Reid (of London.) called into a sphere of action , glorious in its effects and heavenly in its aim . Wonder not then at the deeds of our Christian forefathers , who , for the love of Christ , endured every contumely , persecution ...
Andrew Reid (of London.) called into a sphere of action , glorious in its effects and heavenly in its aim . Wonder not then at the deeds of our Christian forefathers , who , for the love of Christ , endured every contumely , persecution ...
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... action , the force of habit and power of passion governs their conduct . The counsels of wisdom fall on their ears , but enter not ; they hear of the direful effect of passion on the human constitution , and the deadening effect of ...
... action , the force of habit and power of passion governs their conduct . The counsels of wisdom fall on their ears , but enter not ; they hear of the direful effect of passion on the human constitution , and the deadening effect of ...
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... action . One idea brought to action is worth a thousand floating in the brain , and the good it may perform who can tell ? The children , by listening to the speaker's voice , are insensibly forming a character from his instruction on ...
... action . One idea brought to action is worth a thousand floating in the brain , and the good it may perform who can tell ? The children , by listening to the speaker's voice , are insensibly forming a character from his instruction on ...
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True Happiness Found Only in the Christian Life; in a Series of Letters Andrew Reid (Author of Israel's Shepherd.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1824 |
True Happiness Found Only in the Christian Life: Letters Andrew Reid (of London ) Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2016 |
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Sida 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Sida 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Sida 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Sida 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Sida 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Sida 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Sida 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Sida 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Sida 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Sida 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...