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Page 138 - i If such there be, go mark him well, For him no minstrel raptures swell. High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite these titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly
Page 378 - printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience, heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Page 593 - Spite of rock and tempest roar In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea; Oar hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our
Page 409 - my dear, impenitent fellow-prisoners ! how can ye take up your abode, your eternal abode, in everlasting burnings? How can ye dwell with devouring fire? How can ye endure everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power, shut up
Page 467 - Thou sayest that I am a king." "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of
Page 479 - When your children shall say unto you, 'what mean ye by this service?' then ye shall say, ' It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the
Page 129 - sang: When a deed is done for freedom, Through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on From east to west; And the slave, where'er he cowers, Feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, As the energy sublime, Of a century bursts full blossomed On the
Page 453 - cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red— They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew Waiting the judgment day— Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.
Page 451 - Best on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ! No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon
Page 569 - the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked. 9. The divine institution of the Christian ministry, and the obligation and perpetuity of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's