A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh: With Selections from His ... Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, &c. ...Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1831 - 620 pages |
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... Nature or his Native Land Would kindle in those eyes so bright and bland ; The unstudied eloquence , that from his tongue Fell like the fresh dews by the breezes flung From fragrant woodlands ; the benignant look That like a rainbow ...
... Nature or his Native Land Would kindle in those eyes so bright and bland ; The unstudied eloquence , that from his tongue Fell like the fresh dews by the breezes flung From fragrant woodlands ; the benignant look That like a rainbow ...
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... natural scenery . Advice to a young lady . Friendships with the high and the humble : old John Ker . His general character as a friend and companion - urbanity - talent for anecdote- pleasantry - aversion from evil speaking - modesty ...
... natural scenery . Advice to a young lady . Friendships with the high and the humble : old John Ker . His general character as a friend and companion - urbanity - talent for anecdote- pleasantry - aversion from evil speaking - modesty ...
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... nature was born with him , and constituted a leading feature of his mind . It was at Gaitheugh that , one morning , he fell from a tree , when climb- ing for a gled's nest , and lay for some time insen- sible , no one being with him ...
... nature was born with him , and constituted a leading feature of his mind . It was at Gaitheugh that , one morning , he fell from a tree , when climb- ing for a gled's nest , and lay for some time insen- sible , no one being with him ...
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... natural desire to imitate their superiors in years , to meet together under the shade of an elder - tree , whose withered trunk still remains , and with much decorum to conduct the ordinary services . of a prayer - meeting . On these ...
... natural desire to imitate their superiors in years , to meet together under the shade of an elder - tree , whose withered trunk still remains , and with much decorum to conduct the ordinary services . of a prayer - meeting . On these ...
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... nature , and less deeply to feel their obligations to that atoning blood which hath appeased the wrath of God for man's transgres- sion , and to that sovereign and almighty grace which can alone change and renovate the faculties of our ...
... nature , and less deeply to feel their obligations to that atoning blood which hath appeased the wrath of God for man's transgres- sion , and to that sovereign and almighty grace which can alone change and renovate the faculties of our ...
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Page 566 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 200 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 317 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 558 - O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 390 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 487 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll. For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the...
Page 120 - If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
Page 529 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 270 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 535 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.