Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church (earlier "for Younger Members of the English Church"), Volume 11

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J. and C. Mozley, 1871

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Page 477 - And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Page 452 - Before his work be done, but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air...
Page 349 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
Page 436 - Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor: and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
Page 444 - For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl — No larger, tho...
Page 549 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 72 - Leide ruf ich's Freund und Feinden zu: Ewig sind vereint wir beide, und mein Trost, mein Glück bist du. Treue Liebe bis zum Grabe schwör ich dir mit Herz und Hand: Was ich bin und was ich habe, dank ich dir, mein Vaterland.
Page 136 - But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.
Page 452 - Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done ; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will...
Page 539 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

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