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... less volume ! but oh ! how excellently will the same , in due time , be set forth , seeing the paper is so pure , and your Ladyship the overseer to correct the press ! The continuance and increase of whose happiness , here and hereafter ...
... less volume ! but oh ! how excellently will the same , in due time , be set forth , seeing the paper is so pure , and your Ladyship the overseer to correct the press ! The continuance and increase of whose happiness , here and hereafter ...
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... less toothsome to me , were more wholesome for me . Forgive , I pray , my former anger , and now accept my humble thanks . Lord , grant me one suit , which is this ; deny me all suits which are bad for me : when I petition for what is ...
... less toothsome to me , were more wholesome for me . Forgive , I pray , my former anger , and now accept my humble thanks . Lord , grant me one suit , which is this ; deny me all suits which are bad for me : when I petition for what is ...
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... less ; not affrighted with their doleful predictions of dearth and drought , collected from the com- plexions of the planets . Must the earth of necessity be sad , because some ill - natured || Gen. xlv . 28 . Gen. i . 16 . + Gen. i ...
... less ; not affrighted with their doleful predictions of dearth and drought , collected from the com- plexions of the planets . Must the earth of necessity be sad , because some ill - natured || Gen. xlv . 28 . Gen. i . 16 . + Gen. i ...
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... less able to help himself , because he was more cha- ritable to relieve others . No , I see my Sa- viour was pleased to shew himself a God in other men's matters , and but a man in such cases , wherein he himself was concerned . Being ...
... less able to help himself , because he was more cha- ritable to relieve others . No , I see my Sa- viour was pleased to shew himself a God in other men's matters , and but a man in such cases , wherein he himself was concerned . Being ...
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... less desert make greater show ! And whilst proud people stretch out their plumes in ostentation , he useth their vanity for his shelter ; more pleased to have worth , than to have others take notice of it . VII . THE mariners at sea ...
... less desert make greater show ! And whilst proud people stretch out their plumes in ostentation , he useth their vanity for his shelter ; more pleased to have worth , than to have others take notice of it . VII . THE mariners at sea ...
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Page 148 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Page 106 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Page 140 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they ? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 43 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 62 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 137 - And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
Page 125 - Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Page 169 - And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart...
Page 82 - HA is the interjection of laughter ; Ah is an interjection of sorrow. The difference betwixt them very small, as consisting only in the transposition of what is no substantial letter, but a bare aspiration. How quickly, in the age of a minute, in the very turning of a breath, is our mirth changed into mourning ! XV.
Page 93 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.