Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (earlier "for Younger Members of the English Church"), Volume 7J. and C. Mozley, 1869 |
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... side . An inquisitorial inquiry into personal standing with reference to the Saviour would have occupied them much , and some narrow dogmas would have been hazarded , which often would not have had a salutary effect on the young mind ...
... side . An inquisitorial inquiry into personal standing with reference to the Saviour would have occupied them much , and some narrow dogmas would have been hazarded , which often would not have had a salutary effect on the young mind ...
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... side , With a flush in her eyes of blue . With words that he could not understand , She led him captive for many a mile , He felt the touch of her burning hand , And drank the strength of her smile . He bowed his head to the thunder ...
... side , With a flush in her eyes of blue . With words that he could not understand , She led him captive for many a mile , He felt the touch of her burning hand , And drank the strength of her smile . He bowed his head to the thunder ...
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... side , loving , as the sociable birds seem to do , the neighbourhood of man , and stir of life , though never visible . Their example is summed up in the two concluding lines : ' So ye live in modest ways , Trust entire , and ceaseless ...
... side , loving , as the sociable birds seem to do , the neighbourhood of man , and stir of life , though never visible . Their example is summed up in the two concluding lines : ' So ye live in modest ways , Trust entire , and ceaseless ...
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... Side . ' The Sabbath of rest then follows . It is said in a half interrogative manner , that it may find its antitype in the sleep ' Of infant blest , Borne from the Font , the seal new given Perchance to wake in Heaven . ' We own that ...
... Side . ' The Sabbath of rest then follows . It is said in a half interrogative manner , that it may find its antitype in the sleep ' Of infant blest , Borne from the Font , the seal new given Perchance to wake in Heaven . ' We own that ...
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... side , and looseness on the other : but I find it hard to offend in too much devotion , easy in profaneness . ' So I most humbly say respecting this matter of Christ in the Psalms . ' CAMEOS FROM ENGLISH HISTORY . CAMEO XCII . JACK CADE ...
... side , and looseness on the other : but I find it hard to offend in too much devotion , easy in profaneness . ' So I most humbly say respecting this matter of Christ in the Psalms . ' CAMEOS FROM ENGLISH HISTORY . CAMEO XCII . JACK CADE ...
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Page 303 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Page 287 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 259 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 405 - And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Page 227 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 424 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 359 - Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 383 - Well I know thy trouble, 0 My servant true ; Thou art very weary, 1 was weary too ; But that toil shall make thee Some day all Mine own, And the end of sorrow Shall be near My throne.
Page 230 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.