The Christian Teacher, Volume 4Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1842 |
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... standing nobly up , even like the Switzer's Wife , bids them go , while her prayers for their safety and success are ascending to Him who alone can surely protect from evil . And in so doing she merits the thrilling sentence of approval ...
... standing nobly up , even like the Switzer's Wife , bids them go , while her prayers for their safety and success are ascending to Him who alone can surely protect from evil . And in so doing she merits the thrilling sentence of approval ...
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... stand beside that stout , rough- looking man , with a flush upon her cheek , which would have been un- noticed upon a complexion less delicate , I thought of a lamb covered with garlands , and laid upon the altar of sacrifice . For one ...
... stand beside that stout , rough- looking man , with a flush upon her cheek , which would have been un- noticed upon a complexion less delicate , I thought of a lamb covered with garlands , and laid upon the altar of sacrifice . For one ...
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... stand in the same room , and , judging by outward appearance , you could not tell which was which . ' Even gold watches are now no sure indication , for they have been worn by the lowest , even by ' many of the factory girls . ' No lady ...
... stand in the same room , and , judging by outward appearance , you could not tell which was which . ' Even gold watches are now no sure indication , for they have been worn by the lowest , even by ' many of the factory girls . ' No lady ...
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... stand alone . But that same word when out of place Has been to worth the overthrow ; - Then let me with a soothing Yes , My warmest sympathy express , The tear from sorrow's eyelids chase- For when kind words of love should flow , Why ...
... stand alone . But that same word when out of place Has been to worth the overthrow ; - Then let me with a soothing Yes , My warmest sympathy express , The tear from sorrow's eyelids chase- For when kind words of love should flow , Why ...
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... standing , and when asleep he is not free from terrors ; his reason dreams , but his fear is continually awake . Polycrates in Samos , and Periander in Corinth , were horrid tyrants : but no one feared them when he removed to another ...
... standing , and when asleep he is not free from terrors ; his reason dreams , but his fear is continually awake . Polycrates in Samos , and Periander in Corinth , were horrid tyrants : but no one feared them when he removed to another ...
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Page 345 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: ! The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 341 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 348 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 361 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 342 - Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, " The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 95 - And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Page 361 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 315 - The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 52 - twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation...
Page 169 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.