The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1880 |
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... Scriptural names , without saying that they called their children Ephraim or Manasseh . In other words , he does not ... Scripture verity , anecdotes constitute an unfailing auxiliary . Who has not at some time heard a public speaker ...
... Scriptural names , without saying that they called their children Ephraim or Manasseh . In other words , he does not ... Scripture verity , anecdotes constitute an unfailing auxiliary . Who has not at some time heard a public speaker ...
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... Scriptures idolatry which had so long pre- sent by the British and Foreign Bible vailed among us ? Society to Wales , in 1806 , was arguments could have induced us announced , the Welsh peasants to abandon that false system . " went out ...
... Scriptures idolatry which had so long pre- sent by the British and Foreign Bible vailed among us ? Society to Wales , in 1806 , was arguments could have induced us announced , the Welsh peasants to abandon that false system . " went out ...
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... Scriptures . " " There it was , she informed him that her is a prodigious number of them , " eldest son had been buried that replied I ; " the Scriptures must very week . She went on very have been very dark formerly , and naturally to ...
... Scriptures . " " There it was , she informed him that her is a prodigious number of them , " eldest son had been buried that replied I ; " the Scriptures must very week . She went on very have been very dark formerly , and naturally to ...
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... Scriptures in the siastically admiring was not pro - Irish language , begged to see it . duced by one of his own countrymen , He asked whether he might borrow nor even by one of his own class of the New Testament in his own so - called ...
... Scriptures in the siastically admiring was not pro - Irish language , begged to see it . duced by one of his own countrymen , He asked whether he might borrow nor even by one of his own class of the New Testament in his own so - called ...
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... Scriptures . female servant , whose office it was to arrange the library room , was often heard to say , " I love to follow my master in his reading of the Scriptures , and to observe the passages he turns down . I wish everybody made ...
... Scriptures . female servant , whose office it was to arrange the library room , was often heard to say , " I love to follow my master in his reading of the Scriptures , and to observe the passages he turns down . I wish everybody made ...
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Page 19 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 535 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 534 - Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me...
Page 469 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 534 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 534 - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 500 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 427 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer; with man it has often been otherwise.
Page 19 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 135 - I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man...