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... hath not left himself with- out a witness " to his beneficence , in any age , in that he hath unceasingly bestowed on the inhabitants of the world , " rain from heaven , and fruitful seasons , filling their hearts with food and gladness ...
... hath not left himself with- out a witness " to his beneficence , in any age , in that he hath unceasingly bestowed on the inhabitants of the world , " rain from heaven , and fruitful seasons , filling their hearts with food and gladness ...
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... hath been given in vain , The lovely must depart ! Is he not gone , our brightest and our best ? Come near ! and bear the early - call'd to rest ! Look on him ! is he laid To slumber from the harvest or the chase ? -Too still and sad ...
... hath been given in vain , The lovely must depart ! Is he not gone , our brightest and our best ? Come near ! and bear the early - call'd to rest ! Look on him ! is he laid To slumber from the harvest or the chase ? -Too still and sad ...
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... Hath often crossed me on my way , Who sued so humbly for relief , That I could never answer , nay . I had not power to ask his name , Whither he went , or whence he came ; Yet there was something in his eye , That won my love , I knew ...
... Hath often crossed me on my way , Who sued so humbly for relief , That I could never answer , nay . I had not power to ask his name , Whither he went , or whence he came ; Yet there was something in his eye , That won my love , I knew ...
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... hath a double handle , or at least , we have two hands to apprehend it . When an enemy re- proaches us , let us look on him as an impartial relater of our faults , for he will tell thee truer than thy fond friend will ; and thou mayst ...
... hath a double handle , or at least , we have two hands to apprehend it . When an enemy re- proaches us , let us look on him as an impartial relater of our faults , for he will tell thee truer than thy fond friend will ; and thou mayst ...
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... hath made more than sufficient recompense for all the temporal affliction . He that threw a stone at a dog and hit his cruel step - mother , said , that although he intended it otherwise , yet the stone was not quite lost ; and if we ...
... hath made more than sufficient recompense for all the temporal affliction . He that threw a stone at a dog and hit his cruel step - mother , said , that although he intended it otherwise , yet the stone was not quite lost ; and if we ...
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Page 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 169 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Page 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 90 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending...
Page 198 - Publish it from the pulpit: religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it or fall with it. Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Page 171 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 195 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 237 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.