The Conversion of a Skeptic: A Member of the BarSwormstedt & Poe, 1858 - 314 pages |
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... continued to pursue my studies closely during the following summer ; went through Horace ; I also studied Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric , and had daily exercises in com- position . I also read with admiration Pope's translation of the ...
... continued to pursue my studies closely during the following summer ; went through Horace ; I also studied Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric , and had daily exercises in com- position . I also read with admiration Pope's translation of the ...
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... continued to prosecute his studies with even greater success . Although not a college graduate , he was pronounced by competent judges a man of good scholarly at- tainments . He was a good Greek and Hebrew scholar and read the Latin ...
... continued to prosecute his studies with even greater success . Although not a college graduate , he was pronounced by competent judges a man of good scholarly at- tainments . He was a good Greek and Hebrew scholar and read the Latin ...
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... continued at the bar , would , doubtless , soon have been called to a higher position - to fill offices of trust and honor in the councils of the nation . He delivered a number of addresses and orations which were received with the ...
... continued at the bar , would , doubtless , soon have been called to a higher position - to fill offices of trust and honor in the councils of the nation . He delivered a number of addresses and orations which were received with the ...
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... continued resistance of the Holy Ghost soon left him more confirmed in rebel- lion against God , and at a greater moral distance from his " father's house . " In his intercourse and dealings with the world , he was strictly honest , and ...
... continued resistance of the Holy Ghost soon left him more confirmed in rebel- lion against God , and at a greater moral distance from his " father's house . " In his intercourse and dealings with the world , he was strictly honest , and ...
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... continued the exercise of prayer and reading the Bible , and spiritual hymns for several days , in a very anxious state of mind and with no permanent relief . I often felt quite tranquil , but I had no religion . And I sometimes feared ...
... continued the exercise of prayer and reading the Bible , and spiritual hymns for several days , in a very anxious state of mind and with no permanent relief . I often felt quite tranquil , but I had no religion . And I sometimes feared ...
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Page 221 - And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Page 186 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas ? And his sisters, are they not all with us ? Whence then hath this man all these things ? And they were offended in him.
Page 249 - If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Page 245 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 197 - 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...
Page 278 - What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord : I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
Page 213 - Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Page 141 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 85 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry come unto Thee. Hide not Thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble ; Incline Thine ear unto me : In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Page 176 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.