The Christian Teacher, Volume 1Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1835 - England |
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... mind , more agitation than repose of heart , and it is well if , in the illusions of their own confidence and the recklessness of their own wills , they do not throw themselves loose from the holiest restraints of nature and religion ...
... mind , more agitation than repose of heart , and it is well if , in the illusions of their own confidence and the recklessness of their own wills , they do not throw themselves loose from the holiest restraints of nature and religion ...
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... mind of man to make for itself a mirror in the minds of his fellow - mortals , as the moon casts her reflected image into the bosom of every transparent stream . Not only are new objects of interest and new springs of enjoyment almost ...
... mind of man to make for itself a mirror in the minds of his fellow - mortals , as the moon casts her reflected image into the bosom of every transparent stream . Not only are new objects of interest and new springs of enjoyment almost ...
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... mind to that primitive and eternal truth in the bosom of God , above and before all those forms , whether acting on the out- ward sense or transmitted by tradition , in which it has ever been embodied and made known to mankind ...
... mind to that primitive and eternal truth in the bosom of God , above and before all those forms , whether acting on the out- ward sense or transmitted by tradition , in which it has ever been embodied and made known to mankind ...
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... mind when it shall separate from the mass , and through the por- tals of the grave roll its own individual stream of thought into the peaceful eternity ? But these are rather the ultimate convictions of the mind , than the immediate ...
... mind when it shall separate from the mass , and through the por- tals of the grave roll its own individual stream of thought into the peaceful eternity ? But these are rather the ultimate convictions of the mind , than the immediate ...
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... mind , there to fade through neglect , until it is practically dead . There is , in this state of belief in the Providence of God , a remarkable peculiarity of the moral being , which claims the most delicate observation from those who ...
... mind , there to fade through neglect , until it is practically dead . There is , in this state of belief in the Providence of God , a remarkable peculiarity of the moral being , which claims the most delicate observation from those who ...
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Page 24 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 481 - When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 159 - Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground. His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 195 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 282 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 488 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Page 101 - And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Page 159 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 488 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Page 432 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her waggoner, a small...