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... is great , and that our Lord is above all gods . Whatsoever the Lord pleased , that did he in heaven , and in earth , in the seas , and all deep places . " MAN PROPOSES , GOD DISPOSES . Yet the success of 10 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS .
... is great , and that our Lord is above all gods . Whatsoever the Lord pleased , that did he in heaven , and in earth , in the seas , and all deep places . " MAN PROPOSES , GOD DISPOSES . Yet the success of 10 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS .
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... earth produces nothing worse than an un- grateful man . Shakespeare ( " As You Like It , " act ii . sc . 7 ) says : - " Blow , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because ...
... earth produces nothing worse than an un- grateful man . Shakespeare ( " As You Like It , " act ii . sc . 7 ) says : - " Blow , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because ...
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... Earth takes the example . See the Summer , gay With her green chaplets and ambrosial flowers , Droops into pallid Autumn : Winter gray , Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm , Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away , Then melts ...
... Earth takes the example . See the Summer , gay With her green chaplets and ambrosial flowers , Droops into pallid Autumn : Winter gray , Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm , Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away , Then melts ...
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... earth , shake with an unusual agitation and prophesy to us in accents that we have never before heard and which seem incredi- ble . So Acts xii . 22 : - " It is the voice of a god , and not of a man . ” HOW THE WICKED ARE PUNISHED . The ...
... earth , shake with an unusual agitation and prophesy to us in accents that we have never before heard and which seem incredi- ble . So Acts xii . 22 : - " It is the voice of a god , and not of a man . ” HOW THE WICKED ARE PUNISHED . The ...
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... earth , seasons should be allowed for their springing , growing , ripening , and at last to drop . This wise men will cheerfully submit to ; nor could anything else be meant by the stories told of the giants warring against the gods ...
... earth , seasons should be allowed for their springing , growing , ripening , and at last to drop . This wise men will cheerfully submit to ; nor could anything else be meant by the stories told of the giants warring against the gods ...
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Page 30 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 178 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 39 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 549 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 131 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 580 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 196 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 189 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak...