The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... go well today. And not because I think I'm some sort of superwoman. I am at rest because my soul rests on this firm foundation: I have salvation. Jesus rescued me from the power of sin and death REST IN GOD Day 1 - Truly My Soul Finds Rest ...
... go well today. And not because I think I'm some sort of superwoman. I am at rest because my soul rests on this firm foundation: I have salvation. Jesus rescued me from the power of sin and death REST IN GOD Day 1 - Truly My Soul Finds Rest ...
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... rest areas near state highways where travelers can stop during the daytime , without charge , to rest and eat safely . The initial development and operation of roadside rests would be on a state - wide experimental basis with minimum ...
... rest areas near state highways where travelers can stop during the daytime , without charge , to rest and eat safely . The initial development and operation of roadside rests would be on a state - wide experimental basis with minimum ...
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... rests on the assertion that the recognizable study and teaching of rhetoric was invented only when a systematic set of principles were defined and recorded, somewhere around the fifth century BCE. Yet, “As Stesichorus once said, It is ...
... rests on the assertion that the recognizable study and teaching of rhetoric was invented only when a systematic set of principles were defined and recorded, somewhere around the fifth century BCE. Yet, “As Stesichorus once said, It is ...
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... rest and always at his work, we have been “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph 2:10). The Greek text says that we ... rest depend on God's rest? 4. How 46 The Radical Pursuit of Rest.
... rest and always at his work, we have been “created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph 2:10). The Greek text says that we ... rest depend on God's rest? 4. How 46 The Radical Pursuit of Rest.
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... rests on the unchangability of his nature : He is of one mind , who can turn him ? He is infinitely well pleased with the person and work of his Son he has no unsatisfied claims on sinners , but their confidence and love ; and these are ...
... rests on the unchangability of his nature : He is of one mind , who can turn him ? He is infinitely well pleased with the person and work of his Son he has no unsatisfied claims on sinners , but their confidence and love ; and these are ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath betimes bird boast breath call'd cause charms Chiswick death delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fast fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast heard heart Heaven honour labour learn'd less life's live lost lyre Mighty winds mind Muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure poets praise prize proud prove rapture rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil truth Twas virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worm worth youth
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Page 83 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Page 197 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords.
Page 56 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 208 - WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows, Where'er the healing water flows...
Page 127 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Page 229 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Page 150 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 81 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen all tranquillity and smiles.
Page 127 - So manifold in cares, whose every day Brings its own evil with it, makes it less : For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large.
Page 229 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.