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... influence . Selfishness is the curse that blights the fairest flowers of human bliss , that bars the heart of man against his fellow , and , unless removed by the hand of Almighty Love , will close the door of Heaven against us all ...
... influence . Selfishness is the curse that blights the fairest flowers of human bliss , that bars the heart of man against his fellow , and , unless removed by the hand of Almighty Love , will close the door of Heaven against us all ...
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... influence of association , originate with individuals , the corrective process must have a similar origination : nor will the most gloomy and cynical observer of human affairs , or the most sceptical enquirer into the mysterious ...
... influence of association , originate with individuals , the corrective process must have a similar origination : nor will the most gloomy and cynical observer of human affairs , or the most sceptical enquirer into the mysterious ...
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... influence , tend- ing to promote the growth of each other : the observation of every one will have furnished him with numerous instances of proof that such is the case . It were , further , obviously difficult to discriminate between ...
... influence , tend- ing to promote the growth of each other : the observation of every one will have furnished him with numerous instances of proof that such is the case . It were , further , obviously difficult to discriminate between ...
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... influence of sinful society . Hence the vital importance , to our present and future interests , of the careful selection of our associates and friends ; for however deeply we may have been imbued with right sentiments of religion and ...
... influence of sinful society . Hence the vital importance , to our present and future interests , of the careful selection of our associates and friends ; for however deeply we may have been imbued with right sentiments of religion and ...
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influence of companions , whose own career of sin was so much the less easy while a solitary obstacle could be found to withstand it . Lost as to every high and honourable principle themselves , they sought the gratification of the dark ...
influence of companions , whose own career of sin was so much the less easy while a solitary obstacle could be found to withstand it . Lost as to every high and honourable principle themselves , they sought the gratification of the dark ...
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Page 146 - door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.— Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,
Page 177 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 146 - Unto the Angel of the CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS write,— I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 67 - Come, my Corinna, come, and coming mark How each field turns a street, each street a park, Made green and trimmed with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch ; each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorne, neatly interwove.
Page 174 - Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt: Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. ' Twas such a shifter, that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; the
Page 141 - pleasant to grow better ; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts; because that is victory: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire.
Page 82 - in his nostrils, in his fore teeth and grinders: in his lips, in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his fingers. May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, and in all his inward parts, down to his very stomach! May he be cursed in his veins,
Page 97 - That such monuments, and such actions and observances be instituted, and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done. The first two rules make it impossible for any such matter of fact to be imposed upon men, at the time when such matter of fact was said to be done, because every man's
Page 157 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And peace bound up my broken heart, In prison I saw him next, condemn'd To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I stemm'd, And honour'd him, "midst shame and
Page 157 - humbly for relief, That I eould never answer, " Nay": I had not power to ask his name, Whither he went, or whence he came, Yet was there something in his eye, That won my love, I knew not why.