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... denote total opposition of character . How wonderfully may the expression of countenance and character be altered by a small inflexion or diminishing , lengthening or sharpening , even though but of a hair's breadth ! How difficult ...
... denote total opposition of character . How wonderfully may the expression of countenance and character be altered by a small inflexion or diminishing , lengthening or sharpening , even though but of a hair's breadth ! How difficult ...
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... denotes tranquillity in the region of the heart and breast . This threefold life of man , so intimately inter- woven through his frame , is still capable of be- ing studied in its different appropriate parts ; and , did we live in a ...
... denotes tranquillity in the region of the heart and breast . This threefold life of man , so intimately inter- woven through his frame , is still capable of be- ing studied in its different appropriate parts ; and , did we live in a ...
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... denote great debility ; and if the change and decay of the countenance be sud- den , the danger is great . When the nose is pointed , the face of a lead colour , and the lips livid , inflammation has produced gangrene . " There is ...
... denote great debility ; and if the change and decay of the countenance be sud- den , the danger is great . When the nose is pointed , the face of a lead colour , and the lips livid , inflammation has produced gangrene . " There is ...
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... denote manifest dulness and de- bility ? Number 2. A Fool . From the small eyes in this figure , the open mouth , particularly from the under part of the countenance , no man whatever will expect penetration , reasoning , or wisdom ...
... denote manifest dulness and de- bility ? Number 2. A Fool . From the small eyes in this figure , the open mouth , particularly from the under part of the countenance , no man whatever will expect penetration , reasoning , or wisdom ...
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... denote the passions and present state of the mind . The bones give the internal quantity , and their covering the appli- cation of power . Though the skin be wrinked , the forehead bones remain unaltered ; but this wrinkling varies ...
... denote the passions and present state of the mind . The bones give the internal quantity , and their covering the appli- cation of power . Though the skin be wrinked , the forehead bones remain unaltered ; but this wrinkling varies ...
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Page 324 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Page 326 - God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 324 - And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who...
Page 325 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 161 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Page 98 - The light of the body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.
Page 325 - And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also ? Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him, 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly , and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats ? 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Page 323 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 127 - So that now when I open and turn over with reverent joy the leaves of the Gospels, I feel that here is enshrined the highest achievement of Man the Artist, a creation to which nothing can be added, from which nothing can be taken away.
Page 320 - Verily I say unto thee, Inasmuch as thou hast done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me.