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... nature . The event commemorated is the event which , beyond all others , calls for religious joy . It is the anniversary of the world's new birth - the celebration of that marvellous fact ( so marvellous that it requires some mental ...
... nature . The event commemorated is the event which , beyond all others , calls for religious joy . It is the anniversary of the world's new birth - the celebration of that marvellous fact ( so marvellous that it requires some mental ...
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... Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep . ' On Christmas Day itself , of course , our morning and afternoon were given to the worship of God . We may not have entered fully into the spirit of the service , but I doubt not we felt the ...
... Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep . ' On Christmas Day itself , of course , our morning and afternoon were given to the worship of God . We may not have entered fully into the spirit of the service , but I doubt not we felt the ...
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... Nature in her summer dress , the world teeming with life , the trees in richest verdure , the birds carolling out their songs of praise , the flowers filling the air with balmy sweetness , that all this would tend to engender and call ...
... Nature in her summer dress , the world teeming with life , the trees in richest verdure , the birds carolling out their songs of praise , the flowers filling the air with balmy sweetness , that all this would tend to engender and call ...
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... nature , as applied to the fabrication of fire - works , had long been familiar to them , whilst our own European ancestors were sheathing themselves in mail and plate , ignorant of any missile more deadly than the grey - goose shaft ...
... nature , as applied to the fabrication of fire - works , had long been familiar to them , whilst our own European ancestors were sheathing themselves in mail and plate , ignorant of any missile more deadly than the grey - goose shaft ...
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... Nature gave him wit and wisdom in nearly equal proportions . Critics have very generally ascribed to him only the former , as if in fact great wit were not great wisdom relaxed , ' holding both its sides ' and edging its grave aphorisms ...
... Nature gave him wit and wisdom in nearly equal proportions . Critics have very generally ascribed to him only the former , as if in fact great wit were not great wisdom relaxed , ' holding both its sides ' and edging its grave aphorisms ...
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Seite 292 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Seite 378 - But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them, that God bids us do good for evil : And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Seite 141 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Seite 389 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Seite 147 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Seite 212 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 377 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Seite 173 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Seite 147 - ... interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; has diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of cultivated life ; and has thus bound together those scattered portions of the human race, between which nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier.
Seite 79 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.