The Women of the ScripturesLindsay and Blakiston, 1848 - 240 pages |
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Page 31
... reason holds its seat or life courses in her veins . It is found that when a limb is taken from the human body , the consciousness of that limb is never lost . The sufferer feels still in the absent member , as if it were yet present ...
... reason holds its seat or life courses in her veins . It is found that when a limb is taken from the human body , the consciousness of that limb is never lost . The sufferer feels still in the absent member , as if it were yet present ...
Page 48
... reason to suppose that the place of her birth was the very seat and centre of these gross idolatries . For " Uz , " the name of the city in which she was born , and where she passed many years of her life , signifies fire , and probably ...
... reason to suppose that the place of her birth was the very seat and centre of these gross idolatries . For " Uz , " the name of the city in which she was born , and where she passed many years of her life , signifies fire , and probably ...
Page 50
... for understanding all things , and for persuading his hearers , and not mistaken in his opinions ; for which reason he began to have higher notions : of virtue than others had , and he determined 50 THE LIFE , CHARACTER ,
... for understanding all things , and for persuading his hearers , and not mistaken in his opinions ; for which reason he began to have higher notions : of virtue than others had , and he determined 50 THE LIFE , CHARACTER ,
Page 51
... reason to suppose that in earlier life Sarai had been greatly , and in many respects , superior to the women of her age and country , since of this excellent and dis- tinguished man she had become the chosen and the fondly- cherished ...
... reason to suppose that in earlier life Sarai had been greatly , and in many respects , superior to the women of her age and country , since of this excellent and dis- tinguished man she had become the chosen and the fondly- cherished ...
Page 54
... only near her middle age , or as one in our day at thirty years old . For the same reason Abram , who lived " one hundred threescore , and fifteen years , ” or to the age of a hundred and seventy - 54 THE LIFE , CHARACTER ,
... only near her middle age , or as one in our day at thirty years old . For the same reason Abram , who lived " one hundred threescore , and fifteen years , ” or to the age of a hundred and seventy - 54 THE LIFE , CHARACTER ,
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Popular passages
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.