Meditations and Contemplations, Volumes 1-2Solomon Wilbur, Jr., 1813 - Devotional literature |
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Page vii
... look down on all things below ( the delights of good men's friendship excepted ) with an easy indifference ! A strain of the most serious piety and ardent de- votion runs through them , and they tend to inculcate some of the most ...
... look down on all things below ( the delights of good men's friendship excepted ) with an easy indifference ! A strain of the most serious piety and ardent de- votion runs through them , and they tend to inculcate some of the most ...
Page xv
... frequently to repeat these lines with such an emphasis , and significant look , as conveyed their import- ant meaning in a manner mot easily to be forgotten . flesh and my heart fail me , yet God is REV . MR . JAMES HERVEY . XV.
... frequently to repeat these lines with such an emphasis , and significant look , as conveyed their import- ant meaning in a manner mot easily to be forgotten . flesh and my heart fail me , yet God is REV . MR . JAMES HERVEY . XV.
Page xvii
... looks sufficiently testi- fied ; and his attendants then bore a visible witness , that he had not been altogether unserviceable in his genera- tion . The poor thankfully acknowledged it ; and , as they looked into his grave , seemed to ...
... looks sufficiently testi- fied ; and his attendants then bore a visible witness , that he had not been altogether unserviceable in his genera- tion . The poor thankfully acknowledged it ; and , as they looked into his grave , seemed to ...
Page 49
... freely , and the improvement of the reader be consulted without any thing that should look like a variation from the truth , and fact . E regular pillars extending themselves through the midst ; supporting the MEDITATIONS ...
... freely , and the improvement of the reader be consulted without any thing that should look like a variation from the truth , and fact . E regular pillars extending themselves through the midst ; supporting the MEDITATIONS ...
Page 51
... look ; to favor them with a transient visit of kindness ; even this were an unutterable obligation . Will he then vouchsafe to fix his abode among them , and take up his stated residence with them ? Indeed ! A word in this connection ...
... look ; to favor them with a transient visit of kindness ; even this were an unutterable obligation . Will he then vouchsafe to fix his abode among them , and take up his stated residence with them ? Indeed ! A word in this connection ...
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Popular passages
Page 72 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 68 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 154 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 58 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Page 105 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 139 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 152 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 117 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 95 - Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy : his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire...
Page 87 - Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...