The Conversion of a Skeptic: A Member of the BarSwormstedt & Poe, 1858 - 314 pages |
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... I was brought up to labor with him on the farm . He was once in affluent A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH . 21 circumstances , but a great 20 CHAPTER II EARLY MENTAL CULTURE:- A Precocious Youth-A new Fire Burn- ing-Scholarly Attainments -
... I was brought up to labor with him on the farm . He was once in affluent A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH . 21 circumstances , but a great 20 CHAPTER II EARLY MENTAL CULTURE:- A Precocious Youth-A new Fire Burn- ing-Scholarly Attainments -
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... labor , generally earning from seventy - five cents to one dollar per day . The winter and following spring I reviewed my elementary studies and acquired a knowledge of surveying , preparatory to my contemplated residence in northern ...
... labor , generally earning from seventy - five cents to one dollar per day . The winter and following spring I reviewed my elementary studies and acquired a knowledge of surveying , preparatory to my contemplated residence in northern ...
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... labor ; the undisturbed enjoyment of his acquisitions ? Whence but to the natural operation of those principles which the Declaration of our In- dependence has unfolded ? But if our progress in wealth and population is a subject of ...
... labor ; the undisturbed enjoyment of his acquisitions ? Whence but to the natural operation of those principles which the Declaration of our In- dependence has unfolded ? But if our progress in wealth and population is a subject of ...
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... Labor directed by skill is proportionably more pro- ductive . Knowledge is power . The means and resources of a community are multiplied in proportion as their understandings are in- formed , and their judgments rendered less liable to ...
... Labor directed by skill is proportionably more pro- ductive . Knowledge is power . The means and resources of a community are multiplied in proportion as their understandings are in- formed , and their judgments rendered less liable to ...
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... labor on that day . Upon the whole , I regarded myself as a very correct and upright man , and I fully intended to make myself more so . I was a liberal supporter of religion according to my means . I attended fashionable places of ...
... labor on that day . Upon the whole , I regarded myself as a very correct and upright man , and I fully intended to make myself more so . I was a liberal supporter of religion according to my means . I attended fashionable places of ...
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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.