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Page 9
What beautiful and tender associations cluster thick around it ! Compared with it ,
house , mansion , palace , are cold heartless terms . But home ! that word
quickens the pulse , warms the heart , stirs the soul to its depths , makes age feel
...
What beautiful and tender associations cluster thick around it ! Compared with it ,
house , mansion , palace , are cold heartless terms . But home ! that word
quickens the pulse , warms the heart , stirs the soul to its depths , makes age feel
...
Page 23
It boasts no native light ; and dark in the darkness , as the mud or rock where it
lies imbedded , it shines , if with a beautiful , yet with a borrowed splendour . How
meet an emblem of the priceless jewels that adorn the Saviour's crown ! Besides
...
It boasts no native light ; and dark in the darkness , as the mud or rock where it
lies imbedded , it shines , if with a beautiful , yet with a borrowed splendour . How
meet an emblem of the priceless jewels that adorn the Saviour's crown ! Besides
...
Page 32
into her dewy nest ; when from distant uplands , the rooks , a noisy crowd , come
sailing , wheeling home ; when the flowers shut their beautiful eyes ; when the
sun , retiring within the cloudy curtains of the evening : sinks into his ocean - bed
...
into her dewy nest ; when from distant uplands , the rooks , a noisy crowd , come
sailing , wheeling home ; when the flowers shut their beautiful eyes ; when the
sun , retiring within the cloudy curtains of the evening : sinks into his ocean - bed
...
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... light of morn , to gaze on his beautiful bride , to find the blear - eyed Leah at his
side . day approaches when , from dreams of wealth and pleasure , many shall
awake , in rage and unavailing sorrow , to the discovery of a greater mistake .
... light of morn , to gaze on his beautiful bride , to find the blear - eyed Leah at his
side . day approaches when , from dreams of wealth and pleasure , many shall
awake , in rage and unavailing sorrow , to the discovery of a greater mistake .
Page 47
In the grey morning , I have seen the fog - bank that filled the valley wear the
aspect of a lake , where every wood - crowned knoll lay as beautiful island ,
asleep on its placid bosom . How often has superstition fled , pale , shrieking from
the ...
In the grey morning , I have seen the fog - bank that filled the valley wear the
aspect of a lake , where every wood - crowned knoll lay as beautiful island ,
asleep on its placid bosom . How often has superstition fled , pale , shrieking from
the ...
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| Title | Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses from the Colossians |
| Author | Thomas Guthrie |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1858 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2016 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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