The retrospect; or, review of providential mercies: with anecdotes of various characters, and an address to naval officers. By Aliquis, Volume 21823 |
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... seasons ever witnessed a more serene and delightful day than this has been ; few ever beheld one more tempestuous and severe than that in which our ship was stranded amidst shoals of ice on a foreign coast . Methinks I now see the wreck ...
... seasons ever witnessed a more serene and delightful day than this has been ; few ever beheld one more tempestuous and severe than that in which our ship was stranded amidst shoals of ice on a foreign coast . Methinks I now see the wreck ...
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... season to pass by without gratefully acknowledging thy mercy , and endeavouring to raise my mind to high and holy contemplations on Thee , thou Triune Jehovah , as the author of all mercies , and giver of every good and perfect gift ...
... season to pass by without gratefully acknowledging thy mercy , and endeavouring to raise my mind to high and holy contemplations on Thee , thou Triune Jehovah , as the author of all mercies , and giver of every good and perfect gift ...
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... season , fell to rise no more . But especially when yonder leafless trees , groaning beneath the winter's blast , send forth the hollow roar , and mimic the voice of storms at sea - when the frame of my cottage occasionally trembles ...
... season , fell to rise no more . But especially when yonder leafless trees , groaning beneath the winter's blast , send forth the hollow roar , and mimic the voice of storms at sea - when the frame of my cottage occasionally trembles ...
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... season commenced . They had done so this year , and appeared amply supplied for themselves until the severe weather should break up . But as our arrival had added more than a hundred and fifty consumers , no one will be surprised that a ...
... season commenced . They had done so this year , and appeared amply supplied for themselves until the severe weather should break up . But as our arrival had added more than a hundred and fifty consumers , no one will be surprised that a ...
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... season to follow the devices and desires of my blind and rebel heart , and thus to allow Satan to fill me with my own ways . Throughout all the perils and mercies I had passed , I neither once implored the divine assistance , nor once ...
... season to follow the devices and desires of my blind and rebel heart , and thus to allow Satan to fill me with my own ways . Throughout all the perils and mercies I had passed , I neither once implored the divine assistance , nor once ...
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Page 225 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Page 101 - Been hurt by th' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live. Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here much I ruminate, as much I may, With other views of men and manners now Than once, and others of a life to come...
Page 45 - Wash it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb, that was slain to take away the sins of the world...
Page 102 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.
Page 231 - ... of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...
Page 67 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 216 - If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 207 - I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; but I look upon all that has passed as one of those romantic dreams which opium commonly occasions ; and I do by no means desire to repeat the nauseous dose, for the sake of the fugitive dream.
Page 99 - And never won. Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream that they shall still succeed, And still are disappointed.
Page 69 - Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.