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... faces , and joyful wel- comes , were at the door to meet us , we have thought , it shall be thus at the gates of glory . What a meeting there of parents and children , brothers and sisters , and death - divided friends ! What mutual ...
... faces , and joyful wel- comes , were at the door to meet us , we have thought , it shall be thus at the gates of glory . What a meeting there of parents and children , brothers and sisters , and death - divided friends ! What mutual ...
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... face - cloth was left on his eyes , and his limbs were bound fast in the cerements of the tomb ? He emerges from the grave's black mouth a living , yet a startling , hideous object , from whose ap- palling form the crowd reels back ...
... face - cloth was left on his eyes , and his limbs were bound fast in the cerements of the tomb ? He emerges from the grave's black mouth a living , yet a startling , hideous object , from whose ap- palling form the crowd reels back ...
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... faces ; but a blind father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy smile . How would such a spectacle touch the most ...
... faces ; but a blind father sits by the dull fire with a blind boy on his knee , and the sightless mother nurses at her bosom a sightless babe , that never gladdened her with its happy smile . How would such a spectacle touch the most ...
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... face , the boy was polishing the fetter on his ankle . Poor wretch , he was vain of its silvery sheen , and raised sad thoughts in us of pity and won der at the darkness of his neglected soul . And yet more dark and dreadful is the ...
... face , the boy was polishing the fetter on his ankle . Poor wretch , he was vain of its silvery sheen , and raised sad thoughts in us of pity and won der at the darkness of his neglected soul . And yet more dark and dreadful is the ...
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... face of all past and much bitter experience , how many among ourselves live under the delusion that , though the hap- piness they seek and expect to find in the world has , in all bygone time , eluded their grasp , in the object they ...
... face of all past and much bitter experience , how many among ourselves live under the delusion that , though the hap- piness they seek and expect to find in the world has , in all bygone time , eluded their grasp , in the object they ...
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Page 155 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 213 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 313 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 67 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Page 224 - GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds ; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high...
Page 128 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 123 - I, even I, am He That comforteth you : who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; and forgettest the LORD thy Maker, That hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
Page 331 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page 108 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 187 - Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants ; and with corn and wine have I sustained him : and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.