The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. CochraneRobert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) 1877 |
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... hand to the plough , and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of God " ( Luke ix . 62 ) ] . No man that putteth his hand to the plough , and looketh back , is apt for the kingdom of God . That is to say , let no preacher be negligent ...
... hand to the plough , and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of God " ( Luke ix . 62 ) ] . No man that putteth his hand to the plough , and looketh back , is apt for the kingdom of God . That is to say , let no preacher be negligent ...
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... hand with his plough , that it may go forward . But there was never such a preacher in England as he is . Who is able to tell his diligent preaching , who every day and every hour laboureth to sow cockle and darnel , that he may bring ...
... hand with his plough , that it may go forward . But there was never such a preacher in England as he is . Who is able to tell his diligent preaching , who every day and every hour laboureth to sow cockle and darnel , that he may bring ...
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... hand at the first , for fear of trouble or further incon- veniences , the people will not bear sudden alterations : an insurrection may be made after sudden mutation , which may be to the great harm and loss of the realm . Therefore all ...
... hand at the first , for fear of trouble or further incon- veniences , the people will not bear sudden alterations : an insurrection may be made after sudden mutation , which may be to the great harm and loss of the realm . Therefore all ...
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... hands , that will help thee in time of necessity , by giving some alms - deeds , or with any other occupation of the hand . He loveth thee with his body , that will labour with his body , or put his body in danger to do good for thee ...
... hands , that will help thee in time of necessity , by giving some alms - deeds , or with any other occupation of the hand . He loveth thee with his body , that will labour with his body , or put his body in danger to do good for thee ...
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... hand , and gude godlie Richart Ballenden , his servand , halden up the other oxter , from the Abbey to the parish kirk , and by the said Richart and another servand lifted up to the pulpit , whar he behovit to lean at his first entrie ...
... hand , and gude godlie Richart Ballenden , his servand , halden up the other oxter , from the Abbey to the parish kirk , and by the said Richart and another servand lifted up to the pulpit , whar he behovit to lean at his first entrie ...
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Popular passages
Page 393 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 375 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 391 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Page 133 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 324 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 424 - But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 209 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.
Page 228 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 153 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Page 202 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.