The Sabbath: A Poem : to which are Now Added, Sabbath WalksRonalds and Loudon, 1805 - 168 pages |
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... Peace o'er yon village broods : The dizzying mill - wheel rests ; the anvil's din Hath ceas'd ; all , all around is quietness . Less fearful on this day , the limping hare Stops , and looks back , and stops , and looks on man , Her ...
... Peace o'er yon village broods : The dizzying mill - wheel rests ; the anvil's din Hath ceas'd ; all , all around is quietness . Less fearful on this day , the limping hare Stops , and looks back , and stops , and looks on man , Her ...
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... peace they home resort . O blissful days ! When all men worship God as conscience wills . Far other times our fathers ' grandsires knew , A virtuous race , to godliness devote . What tho ' the sceptic's scorn hath dar'd to soil The ...
... peace they home resort . O blissful days ! When all men worship God as conscience wills . Far other times our fathers ' grandsires knew , A virtuous race , to godliness devote . What tho ' the sceptic's scorn hath dar'd to soil The ...
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... peace , no comfort , brings his woe - worn spirit ; Self - curst , the hallow'd dome he dreads to enter ; He dares not pray ; he dares not sigh a hope ; Annihilation is his only heaven . Loathsome the converse of his friends ! he shuns ...
... peace , no comfort , brings his woe - worn spirit ; Self - curst , the hallow'd dome he dreads to enter ; He dares not pray ; he dares not sigh a hope ; Annihilation is his only heaven . Loathsome the converse of his friends ! he shuns ...
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... the view , That glittering eye following , with hopeless look , The friends of former years , now passing by In peaceful fellowship to worship God : C With them in days of youthful years , he roam'd L. 279 . 25 THE SABBATH .
... the view , That glittering eye following , with hopeless look , The friends of former years , now passing by In peaceful fellowship to worship God : C With them in days of youthful years , he roam'd L. 279 . 25 THE SABBATH .
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... peace ; he loves to meet His fellow sufferers , to pray and praise : And many a prayer , as pure as e'er was breath'd In holy fanes , is sigh'd in prison halls . Ah me ! that clank of chains , as kneel and rise The death - doom'd row ...
... peace ; he loves to meet His fellow sufferers , to pray and praise : And many a prayer , as pure as e'er was breath'd In holy fanes , is sigh'd in prison halls . Ah me ! that clank of chains , as kneel and rise The death - doom'd row ...
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Page 93 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 59 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Page 162 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Page 92 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm : therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 28 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 96 - Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Page 29 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 95 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Page 94 - And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Page 100 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight.