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... noble associations , she hastens to speak to her child of things spiritual and things to come . Of course advancing from the known to the unknown , from what is sensible to what is not so , from little to great , she begins with the ...
... noble associations , she hastens to speak to her child of things spiritual and things to come . Of course advancing from the known to the unknown , from what is sensible to what is not so , from little to great , she begins with the ...
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... noble facul- ties of which she is conscious in herself , the elevated dig- nity of our nature , and its lofty destinies , which have made so vivid an impression on the imagination of one who has been quite recently brought down to the ...
... noble facul- ties of which she is conscious in herself , the elevated dig- nity of our nature , and its lofty destinies , which have made so vivid an impression on the imagination of one who has been quite recently brought down to the ...
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... noble title to a mere arguer , but to a philosopher who has care- fully analyzed the mind of man , who knows its first elements as well as its laws , and who has followed its progressive developments up to its most extended and ...
... noble title to a mere arguer , but to a philosopher who has care- fully analyzed the mind of man , who knows its first elements as well as its laws , and who has followed its progressive developments up to its most extended and ...
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... noble task , has a point from whence to start , and a definite object at which to aim . Human nature itself supplies him with the starting - point , for it already speaks more or less distinctly in the child whom the parents entrust to ...
... noble task , has a point from whence to start , and a definite object at which to aim . Human nature itself supplies him with the starting - point , for it already speaks more or less distinctly in the child whom the parents entrust to ...
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... noble affections , in the conviction that that again will form the morals . THE MAN OF LETTERS . It will perhaps create surprise that this character should be called upon to assist in a school of children , who will have no academical ...
... noble affections , in the conviction that that again will form the morals . THE MAN OF LETTERS . It will perhaps create surprise that this character should be called upon to assist in a school of children , who will have no academical ...
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Page 238 - Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Page 161 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
Page 174 - ... that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so ? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 193 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 241 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 210 - And now I say unto. you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 241 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 208 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 208 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 250 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.