Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 pages |
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... effect is more complete when the citation is taken from the Vulgate . " Gray's malicious lines against Lord Sandwich , a notorious evil - liver , as candidate for the High Stewardship in the University of Cambridge , include this stanza ...
... effect is more complete when the citation is taken from the Vulgate . " Gray's malicious lines against Lord Sandwich , a notorious evil - liver , as candidate for the High Stewardship in the University of Cambridge , include this stanza ...
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... effect , There is Mutius Scævola , for instance , addressing Porsenna : " Your threatenings I regarded not , but am subdued by your generosity . " is Porsenna himself , who , as Publicola found , could not be quelled by dint of arms ...
... effect , There is Mutius Scævola , for instance , addressing Porsenna : " Your threatenings I regarded not , but am subdued by your generosity . " is Porsenna himself , who , as Publicola found , could not be quelled by dint of arms ...
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... effect it . " If Wesley had been a father himself , urges that tenderest of fathers , Robert the Rhymer , " he would have known that children are more easily governed by love than by fear . " And as with children , so with men , who are ...
... effect it . " If Wesley had been a father himself , urges that tenderest of fathers , Robert the Rhymer , " he would have known that children are more easily governed by love than by fear . " And as with children , so with men , who are ...
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... effect . Simon the glover , in Scott's story of medieval Perth , is well described as watchful over the tactics his daughter employs towards Henry Smith , " whom he knew to be as ductile , when influenced by his affections , as he was ...
... effect . Simon the glover , in Scott's story of medieval Perth , is well described as watchful over the tactics his daughter employs towards Henry Smith , " whom he knew to be as ductile , when influenced by his affections , as he was ...
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... than they can those gentle appeals which rouse no anger , but soften the whole heart . " The old people stung True to the effect on the him ; but Mercy , without design , took a 40 WIND , FIRE , AND STILL SMALL VOICE .
... than they can those gentle appeals which rouse no anger , but soften the whole heart . " The old people stung True to the effect on the him ; but Mercy , without design , took a 40 WIND , FIRE , AND STILL SMALL VOICE .
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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.