The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, Volume 14Funk & Wagnalls, 1891 |
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... becomes weariness ; for a time it pleases mightily , but at the end of seven years it is just where it began , and will be ... become so accustomed to it already that we call it slow if it loses one mile in sixty . Even the telegraph has ...
... becomes weariness ; for a time it pleases mightily , but at the end of seven years it is just where it began , and will be ... become so accustomed to it already that we call it slow if it loses one mile in sixty . Even the telegraph has ...
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... becomes tired of things , and cries for something better . His world has no perspective ; his world has no outlook . He does not know that there is an altar - stair leading up through the dark- ness to other and fairer worlds . The idea ...
... becomes tired of things , and cries for something better . His world has no perspective ; his world has no outlook . He does not know that there is an altar - stair leading up through the dark- ness to other and fairer worlds . The idea ...
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... become any- thing better as we study his book remains to be seen ; in the meantime his world is small and poor . As we see the earth not by its own light , but by the light of the sun , so we are to see life not by the few sparks which ...
... become any- thing better as we study his book remains to be seen ; in the meantime his world is small and poor . As we see the earth not by its own light , but by the light of the sun , so we are to see life not by the few sparks which ...
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... becomes exhausted in due time . Nothing but exhaustion will ever teach man that heaven is not on earth . He may be told this as a doctrine , and he may not intellectually dissent from the teaching , but with an incurable and ...
... becomes exhausted in due time . Nothing but exhaustion will ever teach man that heaven is not on earth . He may be told this as a doctrine , and he may not intellectually dissent from the teaching , but with an incurable and ...
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... becomes but a gentle slope . One day we shall see it so with earth itself : what is now great to us will become little , and what is now distant and speculative will become the eternal and satisfying reality . Why are we not convinced ...
... becomes but a gentle slope . One day we shall see it so with earth itself : what is now great to us will become little , and what is now distant and speculative will become the eternal and satisfying reality . Why are we not convinced ...
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Page 270 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 397 - In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
Page 84 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 167 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 32 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other ; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 3 - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Page 93 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 87 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all : yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness. is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 324 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Page 85 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?