The Works of John Donne, Volume 1Parker, 1839 - Sermons, English |
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... kind . WYMESWOLD , Dec. 26 , 1838 . * On examining these notes for the purpose of preparing them for the press , it was found that the putting them in the form of regular comments would impair much of their freshness and character ...
... kind . WYMESWOLD , Dec. 26 , 1838 . * On examining these notes for the purpose of preparing them for the press , it was found that the putting them in the form of regular comments would impair much of their freshness and character ...
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... kind . Laboured compliments , and studied antitheses have seldom been so ably or pleasingly strung together ; or playfulness and earnest , pathos and humour , more hap- pily blended . His poems were mostly written in his youth ; his ...
... kind . Laboured compliments , and studied antitheses have seldom been so ably or pleasingly strung together ; or playfulness and earnest , pathos and humour , more hap- pily blended . His poems were mostly written in his youth ; his ...
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... kind in general ; and , as the greatest of public speakers says in his Funeral Oration , That the praises of others are only tolerable up to a point of excellence , which the hearer thinks he could have equalled " , so it may be ...
... kind in general ; and , as the greatest of public speakers says in his Funeral Oration , That the praises of others are only tolerable up to a point of excellence , which the hearer thinks he could have equalled " , so it may be ...
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... kind of victory and triumph to de- ceive a jealous and watchful person , therefore we have hoped to go beyond God too , and his jealousy . But he is jealous of his honour , jealous of his jealousy , he will not have his jealousy ...
... kind of victory and triumph to de- ceive a jealous and watchful person , therefore we have hoped to go beyond God too , and his jealousy . But he is jealous of his honour , jealous of his jealousy , he will not have his jealousy ...
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... kind of spirit ? it fol- lows the spirit of wisdom and understanding , the spirit of coun- sel and power , the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord ; we see the spirit that must rest upon Christ is the spirit in those beams ...
... kind of spirit ? it fol- lows the spirit of wisdom and understanding , the spirit of coun- sel and power , the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord ; we see the spirit that must rest upon Christ is the spirit in those beams ...
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Page 371 - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Page 1 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 63 - Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Page 54 - And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Page 323 - David :" secondly, that he was " declared to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead.
Page 197 - My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death ; Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place!
Page 336 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 537 - They have moved me to Jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 223 - As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow it thither ; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the church-yard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce — This is the patrician ; this is the noble flour, and this the yeomanly, this the plebeian bran.
Page 27 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.