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... truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to leave little impression where the imagina- tion was already heated with great expectations of future happiness ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the ...
... truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to leave little impression where the imagina- tion was already heated with great expectations of future happiness ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the ...
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... truth , I have been more full in my cautions against it , not only as reason requires , -but in reverence to this season , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbearance and self - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the ...
... truth , I have been more full in my cautions against it , not only as reason requires , -but in reverence to this season , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbearance and self - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the ...
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... truth and justice of the doctrine , and frankly acknowledging the force of it , our blessed Saviour concludes the debate with a short admonition , that he would practise what he had approved , and go , and imitate that fair exam- ple of ...
... truth and justice of the doctrine , and frankly acknowledging the force of it , our blessed Saviour concludes the debate with a short admonition , that he would practise what he had approved , and go , and imitate that fair exam- ple of ...
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... truth is , the soul is generally in such cases so busily taken up , and wholly engrossed by the ob- ject of pity , that she does not attend to her own op- erations , or take leisure to examine the principles upon which she acts . So ...
... truth is , the soul is generally in such cases so busily taken up , and wholly engrossed by the ob- ject of pity , that she does not attend to her own op- erations , or take leisure to examine the principles upon which she acts . So ...
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... truth of this seeming paradox , " that though man " is the only creature endowed with reflection , and " consequently qualified to know the most of him- " self ; -yet , so it happens , that he generally knows " the least ; -and with all ...
... truth of this seeming paradox , " that though man " is the only creature endowed with reflection , and " consequently qualified to know the most of him- " self ; -yet , so it happens , that he generally knows " the least ; -and with all ...
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Page 219 - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Page 255 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 238 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 50 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 62 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Page 63 - For thus saith the Lord God of Israel: 'The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Page 257 - Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Page 66 - And it came to pass, after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore that there was no breath left in him.
Page 5 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 139 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.