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... hath given them food in due season , it is the appropriate season of thankfulness and praise . The heart bends with instinctive grati- tude before Him whose beneficence neither slum- bers nor sleeps , and who , from the throne of glory ...
... hath given them food in due season , it is the appropriate season of thankfulness and praise . The heart bends with instinctive grati- tude before Him whose beneficence neither slum- bers nor sleeps , and who , from the throne of glory ...
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... hath as uniformly attended the morning of the spring . There is no language which can speak more in- telligibly to the thoughtful mind than the language of nature ; and it is repeated to us , as it were , every year , to teach us trust ...
... hath as uniformly attended the morning of the spring . There is no language which can speak more in- telligibly to the thoughtful mind than the language of nature ; and it is repeated to us , as it were , every year , to teach us trust ...
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... hath swept ; this outstretch- es my understanding , no less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame ...
... hath swept ; this outstretch- es my understanding , no less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame ...
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... hath beheld , to seem like the gross picture with which you catch infants , and to make the Eastern tale of roman- ces , and the most rapt imagination of Eastern poets , like the ignorant prattle and rude struc- tures which first ...
... hath beheld , to seem like the gross picture with which you catch infants , and to make the Eastern tale of roman- ces , and the most rapt imagination of Eastern poets , like the ignorant prattle and rude struc- tures which first ...
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... hath hope in his death . Con- template , through the unnumbered saints that have died , the soul , the true and unextinguishable life of man , charmed away from this globe by the ce , lestial music , already respiring the gales of eter ...
... hath hope in his death . Con- template , through the unnumbered saints that have died , the soul , the true and unextinguishable life of man , charmed away from this globe by the ce , lestial music , already respiring the gales of eter ...
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Page 103 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 98 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 167 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow, And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires...
Page 52 - Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect.
Page 167 - MUSIC. BLEST pair of sirens, pledges of heaven's joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed power employ, Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce...
Page 158 - I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some...
Page 127 - In the midst of the current of life was the gulf of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose, and with shades, where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 115 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 125 - ... ocean of life; that we had already passed the straits of infancy, in which multitudes had perished, some by the weakness and fragility of their vessels, and more by the folly, perverseness, or negligence of those who undertook to steer them; and that we were now on the main sea, abandoned to the winds and billows, without any other means of security than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.