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Page 48 - Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Page 27 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 59 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 27 - Look unto me , and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth; for I AM GOD, and there is none else.
Page 33 - The revolution had attempted the solution of a problem as impossible as the direction of balloons. An aristocracy is the true support of the throne ; its moderator, its lever, its fulcrum. The state without it is a vessel without a rudder, a balloon in the air.
Page 32 - What is there in that country to oppo.se an effectual resistance to a revolutionary movement ? Monarchy in France has been stripped of those old associations and powerful bulwarks whence it derives almost all its lustre and support in this and other countries. The throne stands in solitary, though not unenvied dignity, without the shelter of a single eminence, exposed to the full force of the furious blasts that sweep from every point of the surrounding level. There is nothing intermediate, nothing...
Page 46 - Svria, caused altars to be built, and sacrificed oxen and sheep (Numb. xxii. 4-0 ; xxiii. 1, 2, 14, 29, 30) ; that he also prophesied concerning the Lord, saying, that there should come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre should rise out of Israel (Numb.
Page 52 - Arise," and then relinquished his prey, like the swoop of an eagle arrested by a thunderbolt ; " and he that was dead sat up and began to speak.