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... smile . The crimson tinge she had imparted to them deepened as we gazed on the wide amphitheatre of mountains , and our minds rose from the material creation , which we surveyed in so much loveli- ness , to that better and fairer world ...
... smile . The crimson tinge she had imparted to them deepened as we gazed on the wide amphitheatre of mountains , and our minds rose from the material creation , which we surveyed in so much loveli- ness , to that better and fairer world ...
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... smiles , and clad in all the elegance of vernal attire , promising themselves , as you would have thought , many years to come of life and pleasure ; but now behold the change ! Dying or withered , neglected and falling in lone- liness ...
... smiles , and clad in all the elegance of vernal attire , promising themselves , as you would have thought , many years to come of life and pleasure ; but now behold the change ! Dying or withered , neglected and falling in lone- liness ...
Page 89
... smile of joy irradiated her faded cheek , and she exclaimed , " O Lord , I will praise thee ! Though thou wast angry with me , thine anger is turned away , and thou comfortest me . Behold , God is my salvation ; I will trust , and not ...
... smile of joy irradiated her faded cheek , and she exclaimed , " O Lord , I will praise thee ! Though thou wast angry with me , thine anger is turned away , and thou comfortest me . Behold , God is my salvation ; I will trust , and not ...
Page 92
... smile of praise . Neither am I unmindful myself of seasons similar to those you describe , when , raised up from days of mourning and months of bitterness , I cried exult- ingly , ' Sing , O heavens , and be joyful , O earth ; for the ...
... smile of praise . Neither am I unmindful myself of seasons similar to those you describe , when , raised up from days of mourning and months of bitterness , I cried exult- ingly , ' Sing , O heavens , and be joyful , O earth ; for the ...
Page 108
... smile of day had invested them , lingered over the cerulean arch , now seen only like white specks as farther and farther the sun declined beneath the horizon ; re- calling to my recollection that beautiful passage of your pastoral poet ...
... smile of day had invested them , lingered over the cerulean arch , now seen only like white specks as farther and farther the sun declined beneath the horizon ; re- calling to my recollection that beautiful passage of your pastoral poet ...
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Page 136 - And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit ; and they cried out for fear. J " But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer ; it is I ; be not afraid.
Page 76 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 90 - I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 24 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Page 108 - The rising vapours catch the silver light ; Thence fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.
Page 60 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 27 - 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 89 - O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 22 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 88 - Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation : my God will hear me.