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... , it leads us to the contemplation of that boundless wisdom which governs the revo- lutions of nature ; amid the apparent decay of being , it reminds us of that almighty power by which all is renewed ; and , by the very 12 WINTER .
... , it leads us to the contemplation of that boundless wisdom which governs the revo- lutions of nature ; amid the apparent decay of being , it reminds us of that almighty power by which all is renewed ; and , by the very 12 WINTER .
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... wisdom , in after years , when he is to as- tonish the village , may gratify at once their am- bition and love . It would , indeed , be painful to think that any one , whose superiority of know- ledge has cost his parents so much ...
... wisdom , in after years , when he is to as- tonish the village , may gratify at once their am- bition and love . It would , indeed , be painful to think that any one , whose superiority of know- ledge has cost his parents so much ...
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... wisdom far less noble , when it can thus feel contempt , than the humble ignorance which it despises . Next in order to the relationship of parent and child , may be considered the relation which the child bears to those who are united ...
... wisdom far less noble , when it can thus feel contempt , than the humble ignorance which it despises . Next in order to the relationship of parent and child , may be considered the relation which the child bears to those who are united ...
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... wisdom ; another , my fluency for knowledge ; one was caught by some superficial display of my wit ; another formed his conclusions of my powers from my accidental superiority to him in a particular instance . As to my disposition , no ...
... wisdom ; another , my fluency for knowledge ; one was caught by some superficial display of my wit ; another formed his conclusions of my powers from my accidental superiority to him in a particular instance . As to my disposition , no ...
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... wisdom , to know how to estimate little things . Of those which are evi- dently great , every one can see the importance ; but true wisdom looks at these great objects be- fore they have arrived at their full size . She considers , that ...
... wisdom , to know how to estimate little things . Of those which are evi- dently great , every one can see the importance ; but true wisdom looks at these great objects be- fore they have arrived at their full size . She considers , that ...
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Page 103 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 98 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 167 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow, And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires...
Page 52 - Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect.
Page 167 - MUSIC. BLEST pair of sirens, pledges of heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed power employ, Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce...
Page 158 - I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some...
Page 127 - In the midst of the current of life was the gulf of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose, and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
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Page 115 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 125 - ... ocean of life; that we had already passed the straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weakness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence of those who undertook to steer them; and that we were now on the main sea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of security than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.