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... better not to try it at all , than run the risk of doing it badly . But , in any case , tempera- ment has much to do with action . A man of very still temperament will find it much more difficult to use action than one to whom nature ...
... better not to try it at all , than run the risk of doing it badly . But , in any case , tempera- ment has much to do with action . A man of very still temperament will find it much more difficult to use action than one to whom nature ...
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... better opportunities . Objections may rise up in terrific vision before him ; obstacles may present themselves which he may not know how to surmount ; the tempter suggests to him to delay his work ; his natural indolence and inactivity ...
... better opportunities . Objections may rise up in terrific vision before him ; obstacles may present themselves which he may not know how to surmount ; the tempter suggests to him to delay his work ; his natural indolence and inactivity ...
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... better and happier , and they have so far succeeded that civi- lization can nevermore be separated from their names . - Dr . Macleod . APOSTLES . - Christ the Theme of the Whatever was characteristic in the preaching of the Apostles ...
... better and happier , and they have so far succeeded that civi- lization can nevermore be separated from their names . - Dr . Macleod . APOSTLES . - Christ the Theme of the Whatever was characteristic in the preaching of the Apostles ...
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... better wine than your vineyard does . You may say that yours came from those that Noah planted ; but they are not so good as mine after all ; " for by their fruit ye shall know them . " And the best of all Churches , as of all ...
... better wine than your vineyard does . You may say that yours came from those that Noah planted ; but they are not so good as mine after all ; " for by their fruit ye shall know them . " And the best of all Churches , as of all ...
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... better is it to suffer pain for a short time , and then to be made well for ever , than to make some brief enjoyment the cause of some ever - during sorrow ! So it is with us who give ourselves trouble to bring together well - arranged ...
... better is it to suffer pain for a short time , and then to be made well for ever , than to make some brief enjoyment the cause of some ever - during sorrow ! So it is with us who give ourselves trouble to bring together well - arranged ...
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Page 59 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 410 - All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghostj teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 38 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 486 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Page 522 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.
Page 561 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 465 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place," " it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, 'For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever:' that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
Page 562 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels ; by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 286 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, That takest away the sins of the world : have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world: receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father: have mercy upon us.
Page 591 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.