Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 pages |
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... assured are at all times infest- ing such numbers of our fellow - creatures , ought , they think , to damp the pleasures of the fortunate , and to render a certain melancholy dejection habitual to all men . " Adam Smith op- poses this ...
... assured are at all times infest- ing such numbers of our fellow - creatures , ought , they think , to damp the pleasures of the fortunate , and to render a certain melancholy dejection habitual to all men . " Adam Smith op- poses this ...
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... assured , only the weariness of mind which , having nothing actually present to complain of , turns upon itself , and becomes anxious about the future - disregard- ing the Scriptural monition that sufficient unto the day is the evil ...
... assured , only the weariness of mind which , having nothing actually present to complain of , turns upon itself , and becomes anxious about the future - disregard- ing the Scriptural monition that sufficient unto the day is the evil ...
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... assured , was always considered the most gentlemanly man in the county . Elsewhere , again , the same author relates his meeting with a diplomatist of weighty name , a stock example of political success , but of whom he could make ...
... assured , was always considered the most gentlemanly man in the county . Elsewhere , again , the same author relates his meeting with a diplomatist of weighty name , a stock example of political success , but of whom he could make ...
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... assured fore - knowledge of the deluge , Noah lived many years under the affliction of a flood , and Jerusalem was taken unto Jeremy before it was besieged . " Holy George Herbert is scarcely more quaint in verse than Sir Thomas Browne ...
... assured fore - knowledge of the deluge , Noah lived many years under the affliction of a flood , and Jerusalem was taken unto Jeremy before it was besieged . " Holy George Herbert is scarcely more quaint in verse than Sir Thomas Browne ...
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... assured prosperity the heroine of a French roman is made to exclaim , " The future is all our own - the radiant future , without cloud or obstacle , pure in the immensity of its horizon , and extending beyond the reach of sight . " But ...
... assured prosperity the heroine of a French roman is made to exclaim , " The future is all our own - the radiant future , without cloud or obstacle , pure in the immensity of its horizon , and extending beyond the reach of sight . " But ...
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Æsop Alp Arslan answer asks Babylon beauty Belshazzar body book of Proverbs brother called Christian counsel dæmon darkness death Divine doth dream earth Emperor evil exclaims eyes fate father fear feel French gentle glory God's hand happiness Hartley Coleridge haste hath Hazael heart heaven Holy honour hope Horace Walpole hour human John judge king letters light live look Lord Madame de Sévigné mind moral nature Nebuchadnezzar never night observes once Owen Feltham passed passion Patrick Fraser Tytler Plutarch poet poor Pope John XXI pray prayer prophet proverb recognised reminds replied rest says seems sense shadow Shakspeare Shakspeare's side the Tweed sleep sorrow soul spirit strangers sweet tells Terah thee thine things thou thought threescore to-morrow toil told Trophimus truth turn unto utter vanity wrath writes
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Page 187 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 2 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 5 - Grey. But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 249 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 338 - Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward : but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 338 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 218 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 341 - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 202 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.