Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 pages |
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... human suffering that we can conceive no retribution which does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain . There is a passage in one of Madame de Charrière's letters in which , avowing her full recognition of the fact ...
... human suffering that we can conceive no retribution which does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain . There is a passage in one of Madame de Charrière's letters in which , avowing her full recognition of the fact ...
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... human family holds in his hand the centre lines of an interminable web - work , on which are sustained the fortunes of multitudes of his successors ; the implicated consequences , if summed together , making up therefore a weight of human ...
... human family holds in his hand the centre lines of an interminable web - work , on which are sustained the fortunes of multitudes of his successors ; the implicated consequences , if summed together , making up therefore a weight of human ...
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... human nature in general . " They are made of the same stuff as we , and dare we say what we should be in their situation ? Poor creatures ! think how they are educated , or rather corrupted , early , how flattered ! To be educated pro ...
... human nature in general . " They are made of the same stuff as we , and dare we say what we should be in their situation ? Poor creatures ! think how they are educated , or rather corrupted , early , how flattered ! To be educated pro ...
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... human beings , or even in the world of a good God . " Lord Lytton has compared the stray glimpses one gets of want and misery , to looking through a solar microscope at the monsters in a drop of water , when the gazer wonders how things ...
... human beings , or even in the world of a good God . " Lord Lytton has compared the stray glimpses one gets of want and misery , to looking through a solar microscope at the monsters in a drop of water , when the gazer wonders how things ...
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... human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought [ So Lear's " O , I have ta'en too little thought of this ! " ] As well as want of Heart ! She clasped her fervent ...
... human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought [ So Lear's " O , I have ta'en too little thought of this ! " ] As well as want of Heart ! She clasped her fervent ...
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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.