The Women of the ScripturesLindsay and Blakiston, 1848 - 240 pages |
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Page 13
... Earth saw , and smiled , - A lovely form , with pallid mien . Bending o'er her new - born child . The pang , the anguish , and the woe That words have never told , Fled , as the sun with noontide glow Dissolves the snow - wreath cold ...
... Earth saw , and smiled , - A lovely form , with pallid mien . Bending o'er her new - born child . The pang , the anguish , and the woe That words have never told , Fled , as the sun with noontide glow Dissolves the snow - wreath cold ...
Page 16
... Earth learned strong lessons in her morning prime , More strange than Chaos taught When o'er discordant elements the darkest veil was wrought ; Man's disobedience , and expulsion dire , The poison of the tempter's glozing tongue , - The ...
... Earth learned strong lessons in her morning prime , More strange than Chaos taught When o'er discordant elements the darkest veil was wrought ; Man's disobedience , and expulsion dire , The poison of the tempter's glozing tongue , - The ...
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... earth being barren of what he needs for sustenance , and prolific in thorns and briers , and the labour consequent on this terrene curse , together with the return of his body to the earth from which it had been taken . The death ...
... earth being barren of what he needs for sustenance , and prolific in thorns and briers , and the labour consequent on this terrene curse , together with the return of his body to the earth from which it had been taken . The death ...
Page 23
... earth as a reluctant sacrifice to the God of nature . This uncalled - for offering is rejected . Abel " obtains witness that he is righteous , " and obtains this witness by faith ; " he offers a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain ...
... earth as a reluctant sacrifice to the God of nature . This uncalled - for offering is rejected . Abel " obtains witness that he is righteous , " and obtains this witness by faith ; " he offers a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain ...
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... earth she trod was not the fruitful Eden , but a hard and barren soil . She had led her partner to transgress , and was the original cause of his labour and sorrow , his sin , its accompanying miseries and gloomy forebodings . The ...
... earth she trod was not the fruitful Eden , but a hard and barren soil . She had led her partner to transgress , and was the original cause of his labour and sorrow , his sin , its accompanying miseries and gloomy forebodings . The ...
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Page 122 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to " return from following after thee : for whither " thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I " will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and " thy God my God : where thou diest, will I die, " and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to " me, and more also, if ought but death part thee
Page 222 - And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
Page 222 - And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail' And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Page 102 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 162 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law : and if I perish, I perish.
Page 59 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 222 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am not yet ascended to my Father ; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father ; and to my God and your God.
Page 113 - Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 66 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Page 22 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.