Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Volume 1M. Carey and son, 1818 - Sermons, English |
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Page ix
... happy , when they can accomplish a moment for them- selves , and enjoy at leisure , the situation of their fortune denies to them . | And that they think them- selves happy when they can ob- tain a moment for themselves , and enjoy that ...
... happy , when they can accomplish a moment for them- selves , and enjoy at leisure , the situation of their fortune denies to them . | And that they think them- selves happy when they can ob- tain a moment for themselves , and enjoy that ...
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... Happy , would it say , the prince who has never fought but to conquer , and whose mind has always been superior either to the danger or to the victory : who during the course of a long and prosperous reign , has enjoyed , and still ...
... Happy , would it say , the prince who has never fought but to conquer , and whose mind has always been superior either to the danger or to the victory : who during the course of a long and prosperous reign , has enjoyed , and still ...
Page xiii
... Happy , says he to you , not him , who is the admiration of his age ; but he who makes his study of the age to come , and lives in the contempt of himself and of all the things of the earth ; for to him is the kingdom of heaven . Not ...
... Happy , says he to you , not him , who is the admiration of his age ; but he who makes his study of the age to come , and lives in the contempt of himself and of all the things of the earth ; for to him is the kingdom of heaven . Not ...
Page xvii
... happy ones , for they completely prevent us from suspecting the least degree of labour in his com- position . It was by this happy negligence that Massil- Ion gained as many friends as auditors : He knew , that the more an orator is ...
... happy ones , for they completely prevent us from suspecting the least degree of labour in his com- position . It was by this happy negligence that Massil- Ion gained as many friends as auditors : He knew , that the more an orator is ...
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... happy a use of . As he spoke the language of all conditions , because he spoke to the heart , all descriptions of men flocked to his sermons ; even unbelievers were eager to hear him ; they often found instruction , when they expected ...
... happy a use of . As he spoke the language of all conditions , because he spoke to the heart , all descriptions of men flocked to his sermons ; even unbelievers were eager to hear him ; they often found instruction , when they expected ...
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Page iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 84 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page iv - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chans, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
Page 447 - 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 130 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 84 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page iv - 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 489 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said ; It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 382 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 308 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.