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... Nature's and Duty's , never are at odds . What asks our Father of His children , save Justice and mercy and humility , A reasonable service of good deeds , Pure living , tenderness to human needs , Reverence and trust , and prayer for ...
... Nature's and Duty's , never are at odds . What asks our Father of His children , save Justice and mercy and humility , A reasonable service of good deeds , Pure living , tenderness to human needs , Reverence and trust , and prayer for ...
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... nature , would endure an hour . But there is mercy in His seeming wrath ; It smites to save - not , tyrant - like , to slay , And storms have beauty , as the lily hath . Despond not then , ye plunder'd sons of trade ! Hope's wounded ...
... nature , would endure an hour . But there is mercy in His seeming wrath ; It smites to save - not , tyrant - like , to slay , And storms have beauty , as the lily hath . Despond not then , ye plunder'd sons of trade ! Hope's wounded ...
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... nature may be more effectually displayed , so that amidst my darkness the light of the Divine countenance may shine forth more bright ; then shall I be at once helpless and yet of giant strength , blind , yet of vision most penetrating ...
... nature may be more effectually displayed , so that amidst my darkness the light of the Divine countenance may shine forth more bright ; then shall I be at once helpless and yet of giant strength , blind , yet of vision most penetrating ...
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... Nature should commit such a fault , through want of power or skill , as to suffer things , really good and evil , to ... Nature is a very child , and this is not only a work of Nature , but is also profitable to her . Lastly , we should ...
... Nature should commit such a fault , through want of power or skill , as to suffer things , really good and evil , to ... Nature is a very child , and this is not only a work of Nature , but is also profitable to her . Lastly , we should ...
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... nature and all that is noble and exalted in man . I ask you , I ask this meeting of my fellow - countrymen , I ask every man in the three kingdoms - and in this case I need not ask woman - what shall be the answer given to this question ...
... nature and all that is noble and exalted in man . I ask you , I ask this meeting of my fellow - countrymen , I ask every man in the three kingdoms - and in this case I need not ask woman - what shall be the answer given to this question ...
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Page 20 - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints...
Page 135 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 161 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 239 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 262 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Page 56 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create*, And what perceive...
Page 35 - They mount up to the heaven ; they go down again to the depths ; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 362 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering : for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
Page 200 - Abide with me ; fast falls the even-tide ; The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Page 133 - Shall, one by one, be gathered to thy side, By those who in their turn shall follow them.