The poetical works of Charles, earl of Crawford |
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... breast , They strove with faithful and peculiar art , The love of piety with verse t ' impart ; Said , that a poet millions might reform , Who aim'd his sacred duty to perform , " Whose noble mind , with views superior fraught ...
... breast , They strove with faithful and peculiar art , The love of piety with verse t ' impart ; Said , that a poet millions might reform , Who aim'd his sacred duty to perform , " Whose noble mind , with views superior fraught ...
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... breast of every candid unbeliever who will attend to them . 1 con- ceive it to be vain that the infidel rages against Christianity ; for let him do whatever he can against it , let him heat the fiery furnace of inquisition seven times ...
... breast of every candid unbeliever who will attend to them . 1 con- ceive it to be vain that the infidel rages against Christianity ; for let him do whatever he can against it , let him heat the fiery furnace of inquisition seven times ...
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... breast , as I was wont , admire The rugged Stoic , whose congealed mind Nor accident nor passion could unbind ; Who joy and grief alike disdain'd to know , Lament his own , or melt at other's woe ; Yet blended temp'rance with a noble ...
... breast , as I was wont , admire The rugged Stoic , whose congealed mind Nor accident nor passion could unbind ; Who joy and grief alike disdain'd to know , Lament his own , or melt at other's woe ; Yet blended temp'rance with a noble ...
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... breast ; Convinces us the soul will always live , From which incessant comfort we receive ; Gives the sound doctrines of the various schools , Without their foolish or pernicious rules ; And adds some better and sublimer lore , Than ere ...
... breast ; Convinces us the soul will always live , From which incessant comfort we receive ; Gives the sound doctrines of the various schools , Without their foolish or pernicious rules ; And adds some better and sublimer lore , Than ere ...
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... breast keeps down the smother'd hell , That there in secret agony it hears , Implacable by penitence or tears ; Lo ! in obedience to the potent word , 135 140 145 Resigns each cruel thought , and drops the thirsty sword . Unmanly Fear ...
... breast keeps down the smother'd hell , That there in secret agony it hears , Implacable by penitence or tears ; Lo ! in obedience to the potent word , 135 140 145 Resigns each cruel thought , and drops the thirsty sword . Unmanly Fear ...
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Page 199 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 7 - And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other, and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Page 12 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
Page 200 - But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Page 24 - And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
Page 9 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 11 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Page 92 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits ; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 24 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 10 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.