The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., Volume 1 |
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... took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " 399 Nov. 20th . - My four blessed boys , Antony , Francis , Maurice , and Evelyn , brought me to - day some money for the Bishopric at Jerusalem . They offered ...
... took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " 399 Nov. 20th . - My four blessed boys , Antony , Francis , Maurice , and Evelyn , brought me to - day some money for the Bishopric at Jerusalem . They offered ...
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Page 8 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 267 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Page 231 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 87 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
Page 354 - And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
Page 264 - Give peace in our time, O Lord. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou O God.
Page 142 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 43 - Ireland, with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjustment as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the Protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his majesty's subjects.
Page 6 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 278 - This is the day which the LORD hath made ; Let us rejoice and be glad in it...