The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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E S. P. wishes to declare , and then must be sure that the anecdote chosen will aptly illustrate that truth . Conscious that a great need existed for a comprehensive book of illustrative anecdote suitable to the exigencies of many who ...
E S. P. wishes to declare , and then must be sure that the anecdote chosen will aptly illustrate that truth . Conscious that a great need existed for a comprehensive book of illustrative anecdote suitable to the exigencies of many who ...
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... wish that it might find a place in every Minister's library . In writing thus , I have chiefly their interest and the advantage of their people in view . Nevertheless , I may add that this " Cyclopædia " of yours would form an ...
... wish that it might find a place in every Minister's library . In writing thus , I have chiefly their interest and the advantage of their people in view . Nevertheless , I may add that this " Cyclopædia " of yours would form an ...
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... wish to know a 8. Trade or Man ? -It is remem- better way , and begged he would bered as one of the liberal axioms show him . " I have , ' answered of George III . that " no British the minister , " a map in my pocket subject is by ...
... wish to know a 8. Trade or Man ? -It is remem- better way , and begged he would bered as one of the liberal axioms show him . " I have , ' answered of George III . that " no British the minister , " a map in my pocket subject is by ...
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... wish their manner was more The evangelists simply relate what adopted in controversy . " AFFLICTION . Job xxxiii . 17 ; Prov . iii . 12 ; Daniel xii . 10 ; John xvi . 33 ; Acts xiv . 22 . a precious treasure this affliction has been to ...
... wish their manner was more The evangelists simply relate what adopted in controversy . " AFFLICTION . Job xxxiii . 17 ; Prov . iii . 12 ; Daniel xii . 10 ; John xvi . 33 ; Acts xiv . 22 . a precious treasure this affliction has been to ...
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... wish for no when conducted into his room , he better trust . " said , " Bishop Beveridge , do you know me ? " " Who are you ? " asked the Bishop . Being told who the minister was , he said that he did not know him . Another friend came ...
... wish for no when conducted into his room , he better trust . " said , " Bishop Beveridge , do you know me ? " " Who are you ? " asked the Bishop . Being told who the minister was , he said that he did not know him . Another friend came ...
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Page 543 - 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 229 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 363 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 18 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 329 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
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 196 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 477 - 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 479 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 488 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee...