The Rose of Sharon: A Religious SouvenirA. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1852 |
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... soul . " Their wicked desire wrought its own compensation accord- ing to the inevitable laws of Divine justice ; for with the satisfaction of their wish came their greatest misery . - This event teaches us a very important truth . It is ...
... soul . " Their wicked desire wrought its own compensation accord- ing to the inevitable laws of Divine justice ; for with the satisfaction of their wish came their greatest misery . - This event teaches us a very important truth . It is ...
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... soul was thus bal- anced , would have no desires contrary to the law of his Heavenly Father . His intellect would instinc- tively gravitate towards the truth , his imagination would shape only forms of purity and celestial beauty , and ...
... soul was thus bal- anced , would have no desires contrary to the law of his Heavenly Father . His intellect would instinc- tively gravitate towards the truth , his imagination would shape only forms of purity and celestial beauty , and ...
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... soul , no one will receive it as a correct description of any living being . The very thing that we were made to be , and ought to be- to our shame be it spoken - when described , appears to most of us a visionary and impracticable ...
... soul , no one will receive it as a correct description of any living being . The very thing that we were made to be , and ought to be- to our shame be it spoken - when described , appears to most of us a visionary and impracticable ...
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... soul . " Illustrations of this truth might be drawn from all occupations of life , and all varieties of character . But it will suffice now to present one which can be easily verified . A man may permit himself to be engrossed by the ...
... soul . " Illustrations of this truth might be drawn from all occupations of life , and all varieties of character . But it will suffice now to present one which can be easily verified . A man may permit himself to be engrossed by the ...
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... soul consecrated to truth , do they not run through the sophistry of his antag- onist , like fire rushing through flax ? When , in his speech , the eternal law of God gets avowed , are not this man and all his followers compelled to ...
... soul consecrated to truth , do they not run through the sophistry of his antag- onist , like fire rushing through flax ? When , in his speech , the eternal law of God gets avowed , are not this man and all his followers compelled to ...
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amid Arnstein beautiful beneath Bertha blessed bondage bondmaid boyhood brave bright broken brow Bunker Hill Cambridgeport Candlemas castle cheek child Clairvoyant clasped convent Count Rudolf dared dark dear dear father death deep destrier dews warned Dorn dream earth earthly Ellen Elohim enfeoffments Erich eyes face fair faith father feeling flowers fountain gazed gentle glorious God's grave hand happy Harold hath heart Hearts of Oak Heaven holy hope hour Howard Jenkins Joseph Ritner Lady Adelheid light lips live look lord Mamre mother mourning neath never night noble numbers pale passed Petrea pitcher pray proud replied rest rose seemed seneschal silent sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit Sponheim Steinach stood Strome sweet tale tears tell thee thine things thought Tintoretto tion tones voice wandered weary whispered words young youth
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Página 177 - That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to...
Página 176 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage...
Página 176 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Página 177 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life.
Página 169 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Página 169 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain...
Página 228 - ... of the Nile will drink it in by their leaves ; the cedars of Lebanon will take of it to add to their stature ; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers.
Página 228 - Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing was distilled for us some short time ago by the magnolias of...
Página 278 - And I, in love with the disgrace, Their smiles and jests enjoy, And thank kind heaven that, old in years, In heart I 'm still a boy. What is it, this they'd have me win, This gain from which I start ? A keener, calculating head — Ah, loss! a colder heart; Well, manhood's sense or boyhood's warmth, But one if I enjoy. Leave, leave the heart, and keep the head, I still will be a boy.
Página 147 - Abraham feared him or not, till he had tried him by commanding him to offer his son as a burnt-offering. But when Abraham had bound his son, and lifted up the knife to take his life, God is represented as saying : "Now I know thou fearest me; since thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.