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... moral beauties and spiritual glories of Him who was " fairer than the children of men . " It was with a mind serene , meditative , and holy , that the last of the apostles pour- trayed the mystery of his Being , and the excellence of ...
... moral beauties and spiritual glories of Him who was " fairer than the children of men . " It was with a mind serene , meditative , and holy , that the last of the apostles pour- trayed the mystery of his Being , and the excellence of ...
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... moral cor- ruption , to the wilderness , where , undisturbed , they taught the lessons of divine wisdom to the scattered people who gathered round them , and received their instructions . The piety of those teachers was mystic and ...
... moral cor- ruption , to the wilderness , where , undisturbed , they taught the lessons of divine wisdom to the scattered people who gathered round them , and received their instructions . The piety of those teachers was mystic and ...
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... moral , have not been without their counter- part in the physical world . Instead of falling into their proper place in the economy of nature , the rain and the sunshine have been disput- ing apparently the empire of the year , and if ...
... moral , have not been without their counter- part in the physical world . Instead of falling into their proper place in the economy of nature , the rain and the sunshine have been disput- ing apparently the empire of the year , and if ...
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... Morality , Jocopo . Morality forsooth ! Ugo . And is it not religion to be good ? To slave from year to year for folks ' improvement ? To quite forget himself in other people ? My hard - laborious master is a saint , If ever saint there ...
... Morality , Jocopo . Morality forsooth ! Ugo . And is it not religion to be good ? To slave from year to year for folks ' improvement ? To quite forget himself in other people ? My hard - laborious master is a saint , If ever saint there ...
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... moral man whene'er the mild And temperate elements of nature meet . Some men are moral only to be happy , Secure some heaven , or else escape some hell ; In order that , at best , they may be free To do and be what man can be or do . In ...
... moral man whene'er the mild And temperate elements of nature meet . Some men are moral only to be happy , Secure some heaven , or else escape some hell ; In order that , at best , they may be free To do and be what man can be or do . In ...
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Page 125 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 401 - God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 310 - ... to take order, that unity and peace be preserved in the church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed.
Page 379 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 104 - Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night: See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Page 104 - Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 404 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 375 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 30 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him ; and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.
Page 265 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.