Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three Thousand Facts, Incidents, Narratives, Examples and Testimonies, Containing the Best of the Kind in Most Former Collections, and Some Hundreds in Addition, Original and Selected, the Whole Critically Arranged and Classified on a New Plan, with Copious Topical and Scriptural IndexesLeavitt and Allen, 1848 - 891 pages |
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... heard to an incredible distance , spake with the tones of the soul ; and his gestures were impelled by the same spontaneous , magic influence , that made them , as well as his words , seem part of the soul . According to the common ...
... heard to an incredible distance , spake with the tones of the soul ; and his gestures were impelled by the same spontaneous , magic influence , that made them , as well as his words , seem part of the soul . According to the common ...
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... heard . " Son , " said the old man , " I wish I could hear the man myself ; do you think I can ride as far ? " " Father , " said he , " if you will go to cousin W.'s over - night , I think you could . " The horses were saddled , and off ...
... heard . " Son , " said the old man , " I wish I could hear the man myself ; do you think I can ride as far ? " " Father , " said he , " if you will go to cousin W.'s over - night , I think you could . " The horses were saddled , and off ...
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... heard music proceeding from a house , room , and the dim light in the room where it lay could be seen by every dancer , and the sound of the music and dancing disturbed the melancholy watchers . Who can doubt but that such amusements ...
... heard music proceeding from a house , room , and the dim light in the room where it lay could be seen by every dancer , and the sound of the music and dancing disturbed the melancholy watchers . Who can doubt but that such amusements ...
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... heard from her half - opened lips . Yet , when called by name , she would open her eyes , and seemed to recognize those around her . She continued in this condition for seve- ral hours , during which period she oc- casionally uttered ...
... heard from her half - opened lips . Yet , when called by name , she would open her eyes , and seemed to recognize those around her . She continued in this condition for seve- ral hours , during which period she oc- casionally uttered ...
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... heard that she came on an errand of mercy , her withered and sickly coun- tenance assumed an unwonted glow and brightness . After expressing a stead- fast hope of salvation through the merits of the Savior , she gave the following ...
... heard that she came on an errand of mercy , her withered and sickly coun- tenance assumed an unwonted glow and brightness . After expressing a stead- fast hope of salvation through the merits of the Savior , she gave the following ...
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Page 346 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 148 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 318 - Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world.
Page 638 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Page 462 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 374 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 269 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 151 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 401 - Socrates, peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted, and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared.
Page 248 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...