Roll of a tennis ball, through the moral world, a ser. of contemplations, by a solitary traveller [J. Stewart].1812 |
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... Honour Reflections resulting from the above The merit of Public Opinion considered Experience of James Nailor 63 67 70 78 80 88 92 93 Clement XIV . an Example of true Greatness Marie de la Mothe Guion , brief Memoir of her His- tory and ...
... Honour Reflections resulting from the above The merit of Public Opinion considered Experience of James Nailor 63 67 70 78 80 88 92 93 Clement XIV . an Example of true Greatness Marie de la Mothe Guion , brief Memoir of her His- tory and ...
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... honour . Galileo asserted that the Earth moved round the Sun , and for this thy brethren of the inquisition condemned him ; but if thou feel indigna- tion against the doctrines of my book , and can give no better reason for it , than ...
... honour . Galileo asserted that the Earth moved round the Sun , and for this thy brethren of the inquisition condemned him ; but if thou feel indigna- tion against the doctrines of my book , and can give no better reason for it , than ...
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... honours and profits of the world turning their backs upon all , and devoting the whole of their attention to the present and eternal happiness of man ; and there are many such individuals existing - but religious societies in gene- ral ...
... honours and profits of the world turning their backs upon all , and devoting the whole of their attention to the present and eternal happiness of man ; and there are many such individuals existing - but religious societies in gene- ral ...
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... honour , have obtained fortunes and offices of trust ; and by which they have accomplished the ruin of families - the history of these occurrences for quarter of a century in a very small district of country , would alone fill a volume ...
... honour , have obtained fortunes and offices of trust ; and by which they have accomplished the ruin of families - the history of these occurrences for quarter of a century in a very small district of country , would alone fill a volume ...
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... honours shall go forth to court their acceptance ; they shall be nursed in the lap of ease , and pleasure shall allure them in all her enchanting forms , they shall fall greedily on the prey ; and while contending for popedoms ...
... honours shall go forth to court their acceptance ; they shall be nursed in the lap of ease , and pleasure shall allure them in all her enchanting forms , they shall fall greedily on the prey ; and while contending for popedoms ...
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Page 217 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 362 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page 218 - Brethren, be not children in understanding : howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Page 423 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 390 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 434 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page 30 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 390 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 348 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 36 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.