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... and die rejecting Christianity myself , and doing all I could to over- throw it this day I determined to re- nounce all subjection to and expectation from Jesus of Nazareth , in calm defiance of that day , when his followers assert , he.
... and die rejecting Christianity myself , and doing all I could to over- throw it this day I determined to re- nounce all subjection to and expectation from Jesus of Nazareth , in calm defiance of that day , when his followers assert , he.
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... this letter to you , my very dear father , I knew not how I could write it , I was so uneasy at the idea ; but I have requested that I may write to you myself , and I am now quite calm and cheerful ; more so than 1 ...
... this letter to you , my very dear father , I knew not how I could write it , I was so uneasy at the idea ; but I have requested that I may write to you myself , and I am now quite calm and cheerful ; more so than 1 ...
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Charles Benjamin Tayler. am now quite calm and cheerful ; more so than I have ever been ; though it is a very different calmness and cheerfulness from what I have ever experienced before ; you must often have wit- nessed it , my dear ...
Charles Benjamin Tayler. am now quite calm and cheerful ; more so than I have ever been ; though it is a very different calmness and cheerfulness from what I have ever experienced before ; you must often have wit- nessed it , my dear ...
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... calm again - something had vanished there - it was the soul . Adrien had arrived in England the day after Rosine's death : he saw her body in the coffin ; but this is his letter to M. St. Alme : - " I was too late , my dear father : our ...
... calm again - something had vanished there - it was the soul . Adrien had arrived in England the day after Rosine's death : he saw her body in the coffin ; but this is his letter to M. St. Alme : - " I was too late , my dear father : our ...
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... calm and happy . I am so assured that God's Providence is ever over us . There is only one way to be happy ; to depend entirely on God , while we exert ourselves . I am not taking a liberty , in thus giving my opinion ; I am con- vinced ...
... calm and happy . I am so assured that God's Providence is ever over us . There is only one way to be happy ; to depend entirely on God , while we exert ourselves . I am not taking a liberty , in thus giving my opinion ; I am con- vinced ...
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Page 52 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 115 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 197 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 103 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 155 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both.
Page viii - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 59 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 219 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Page xiv - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 128 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.