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... periods or states , " says a celebrated French writer , " no barrier is in- terposed but life , the most brittle thing in all nature ; and the happiness of heaven being certainly not designed for those who doubt whether they have an ...
... periods or states , " says a celebrated French writer , " no barrier is in- terposed but life , the most brittle thing in all nature ; and the happiness of heaven being certainly not designed for those who doubt whether they have an ...
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... period of time . That the thinking principle in man is of an immortal na- ture , was believed by the ancient Egyptians , the Persians , the Phenicians , the Scythians , the Celts , the Druids , the Assyrians , by the wisest and the most ...
... period of time . That the thinking principle in man is of an immortal na- ture , was believed by the ancient Egyptians , the Persians , the Phenicians , the Scythians , the Celts , the Druids , the Assyrians , by the wisest and the most ...
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... period to his existence , the only consistent action he can perform , when he finds his earthly wishes and expec- tations frustrated , is to rush into the arms of death , and rid himself at once of all the evils connected with his being ...
... period to his existence , the only consistent action he can perform , when he finds his earthly wishes and expec- tations frustrated , is to rush into the arms of death , and rid himself at once of all the evils connected with his being ...
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... period we can affix to duration , and move onward through a boundless eternity . And if he is to be for ever cut off from existence when his body drops into the grave , how dismal the continued appre- hension of an everlasting period ...
... period we can affix to duration , and move onward through a boundless eternity . And if he is to be for ever cut off from existence when his body drops into the grave , how dismal the continued appre- hension of an everlasting period ...
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... periods of their revolutions , their eclip- ses , and the distances at which they are placed from our sublunary mansion , demonstrate the vigour and compre- hension of those reasoning faculties with which he is en- dowed . By means of ...
... periods of their revolutions , their eclip- ses , and the distances at which they are placed from our sublunary mansion , demonstrate the vigour and compre- hension of those reasoning faculties with which he is en- dowed . By means of ...
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Page 111 - Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 135 - The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Page 113 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just : 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 228 - Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 23 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 84 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 26 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Page 228 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 114 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 111 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.