Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey1842 |
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... Look at the sculptured portico , purely Gothic , nothing can be finer . It is as rich as age and elaborate carving can make it , from its pointed top to its substantial base . Regard the massy but- tresses , and that goodly tower where ...
... Look at the sculptured portico , purely Gothic , nothing can be finer . It is as rich as age and elaborate carving can make it , from its pointed top to its substantial base . Regard the massy but- tresses , and that goodly tower where ...
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... look upwards for immortality ; for on earth we cannot find it . Observe the galleries above , on double columns ... looks a different place to what it did when its clustered pilasters and groined arches were lighted up with lamps ...
... look upwards for immortality ; for on earth we cannot find it . Observe the galleries above , on double columns ... looks a different place to what it did when its clustered pilasters and groined arches were lighted up with lamps ...
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... Look up , poor dying Christian ; for yonder is the bright and morning Star : thy night is far spent , and the day is at hand . Is thine arm too feeble to be put forth for the book of God , then I must even hold it up before thine eyes .
... Look up , poor dying Christian ; for yonder is the bright and morning Star : thy night is far spent , and the day is at hand . Is thine arm too feeble to be put forth for the book of God , then I must even hold it up before thine eyes .
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... look upon as the flowers of the field . There is a text of Holy Scripture which says , " Whether therefore ye eat , or drink , or what- soever ye do , do all to the glory of God , " 1 Cor . x . 31. And a letter that I have but just ...
... look upon as the flowers of the field . There is a text of Holy Scripture which says , " Whether therefore ye eat , or drink , or what- soever ye do , do all to the glory of God , " 1 Cor . x . 31. And a letter that I have but just ...
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... look on a scene like this , Of wild and careless play , And persuade myself that am not old , And my locks are not yet grey ; For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart , And it makes his pulses fly , To catch the thrill of a happy ...
... look on a scene like this , Of wild and careless play , And persuade myself that am not old , And my locks are not yet grey ; For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart , And it makes his pulses fly , To catch the thrill of a happy ...
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Popular passages
Page 271 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Page 4 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 197 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 94 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 109 - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 222 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 52 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 269 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections; whom we are commanded to "love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 19 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 264 - PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.