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Page 68
... passing clouds that veil yon high expanse , With stars bespangled , give me more delight Than all the boasted monuments of art . Mark , through the branches of yon poplar - grove , Thy gentle rays steal softly o'er the vale , And the ...
... passing clouds that veil yon high expanse , With stars bespangled , give me more delight Than all the boasted monuments of art . Mark , through the branches of yon poplar - grove , Thy gentle rays steal softly o'er the vale , And the ...
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... passing train ! Upon that bier Is borne a loved one to the cold , dark tomb ; The young lies there , all pale and motionless . His father's pride , his mother's hope and joy ; He sleeps , he sleeps in death ! the eyes which erst ...
... passing train ! Upon that bier Is borne a loved one to the cold , dark tomb ; The young lies there , all pale and motionless . His father's pride , his mother's hope and joy ; He sleeps , he sleeps in death ! the eyes which erst ...
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... passing transactions of the day . Events which , from the time that has elapsed since their occurrence , would seem to have become the property of impartial history , are either regarded as having some connexion with existing ...
... passing transactions of the day . Events which , from the time that has elapsed since their occurrence , would seem to have become the property of impartial history , are either regarded as having some connexion with existing ...
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... passed through a painful succession of persecuting annoyances and personal hardships , embarks at Charlestown , on his return to England . 1737. August . In the beginning of this month Mr. Wesley unites with the Moravians in one of ...
... passed through a painful succession of persecuting annoyances and personal hardships , embarks at Charlestown , on his return to England . 1737. August . In the beginning of this month Mr. Wesley unites with the Moravians in one of ...
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... passing , a useful observation . What the mind bodies forth for contem- plation , is always modified , to a most important extent , by our own habitual temperament . Whatever the events were , considered in themselves , yet , as ...
... passing , a useful observation . What the mind bodies forth for contem- plation , is always modified , to a most important extent , by our own habitual temperament . Whatever the events were , considered in themselves , yet , as ...
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Page 27 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.
Page 116 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps, and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 242 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 170 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 10 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 133 - These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due .season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Page 111 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...
Page 222 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in. the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 250 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 162 - ONE prayer I have, — all prayers in one, — When I am wholly thine; • " Thy will, my God, thy will be done, And let that will be mine.