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... ideas to conceive . I recollect , that when I was told of the earth's rotundity , and of our antipodes walking with their heads turned away from ours , I held out long and stoutly against the possibility of such an arrangement ; and ...
... ideas to conceive . I recollect , that when I was told of the earth's rotundity , and of our antipodes walking with their heads turned away from ours , I held out long and stoutly against the possibility of such an arrangement ; and ...
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... idea of the state of mind in which , as a child brought up on the lap of orthodoxy , I found myself . No one , I believe , but he who has been similarly situated , can accurately con- ceive the situation . It is to have eyes , yet not ...
... idea of the state of mind in which , as a child brought up on the lap of orthodoxy , I found myself . No one , I believe , but he who has been similarly situated , can accurately con- ceive the situation . It is to have eyes , yet not ...
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... ideas . My father was universally respected as a man of talent ; and I loved him as an affectionate and indulgent parent . My mother , too , swayed as well by her affection for my father , as by her fear that the disclosure of his ...
... ideas . My father was universally respected as a man of talent ; and I loved him as an affectionate and indulgent parent . My mother , too , swayed as well by her affection for my father , as by her fear that the disclosure of his ...
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... idea of the great good I should effect , " I will myself , " cried I , become the instrument of my father's conversion . I will talk to him of religion , and convince him - I know I can - of its truth ; and then he will not be sent to ...
... idea of the great good I should effect , " I will myself , " cried I , become the instrument of my father's conversion . I will talk to him of religion , and convince him - I know I can - of its truth ; and then he will not be sent to ...
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... idea that , on the strength of this latter clause , " it shall hide a multitude of sins , " I might venture an occasional infringement on the monotony of Sunday , without any great risk of the consequences at the day of judgment . If I ...
... idea that , on the strength of this latter clause , " it shall hide a multitude of sins , " I might venture an occasional infringement on the monotony of Sunday , without any great risk of the consequences at the day of judgment . If I ...
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Popular passages
Page 14 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 14 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 3 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 16 - Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 4 - Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts.
Page 16 - And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 7 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.
Page 8 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 5 - The love of a delicate female is always shy and silent Even when fortunate, she scarcely breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace.
Page 16 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.