Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Volume 2G. Davidson, 1816 - 617 pages |
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Page 292
... or not . - I answer : why any deviation at all where the matter is allowed to be unimportant ? But is it indeed unimportant ? Is it nothing to spread - * The Pleasures of Memory . a veil over the effulgence of truth ? Is it 292.
... or not . - I answer : why any deviation at all where the matter is allowed to be unimportant ? But is it indeed unimportant ? Is it nothing to spread - * The Pleasures of Memory . a veil over the effulgence of truth ? Is it 292.
Page 293
... pleasure or ambition often can obscure it ; and we have little reason to think its effects too powerful , either in restricting our vicious or animating our virtuous habits . Its effects must be greatly diminished by adopting the ...
... pleasure or ambition often can obscure it ; and we have little reason to think its effects too powerful , either in restricting our vicious or animating our virtuous habits . Its effects must be greatly diminished by adopting the ...
Page 309
... pleasure ( they say ) which we feel in steal- ing along a sunny vale , soothed by the concert of the woods and murmuring waters , is of a different kind from the delight enjoyed in coursing over an open champaign , keen in the chase ...
... pleasure ( they say ) which we feel in steal- ing along a sunny vale , soothed by the concert of the woods and murmuring waters , is of a different kind from the delight enjoyed in coursing over an open champaign , keen in the chase ...
Page 315
... pleasures of the world . Their fancy sketches almost intuitively an image of perfection , of which Christianity alone presents the perfect draught . Besides which they have generally very unequal spirits : the same heart which , during ...
... pleasures of the world . Their fancy sketches almost intuitively an image of perfection , of which Christianity alone presents the perfect draught . Besides which they have generally very unequal spirits : the same heart which , during ...
Page 317
... pleasure . His heart at times seems to overflow with gladness , but in other moments I have seen him dreadfully agitated . His friends perceive this , and express their fears of his being too religious . But in truth religion has no ...
... pleasure . His heart at times seems to overflow with gladness , but in other moments I have seen him dreadfully agitated . His friends perceive this , and express their fears of his being too religious . But in truth religion has no ...
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Page 474 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 274 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 432 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 410 - He that is of God heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 432 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 468 - Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works,
Page 411 - But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Page 537 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Page 482 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie : but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 396 - O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.