The Gates Wide Open; Or, Scenes in Another WorldLee and Shepard, 1870 - 340 pages |
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Page xi
... Morning Scenes - Deacon Colgate's Account of this New World - Colloquy con- cerning this World in contrast with Earth - Breakfast Servitors described- Peter receives a Message from his Angel to hasten to the Metropolis to hear a new ...
... Morning Scenes - Deacon Colgate's Account of this New World - Colloquy con- cerning this World in contrast with Earth - Breakfast Servitors described- Peter receives a Message from his Angel to hasten to the Metropolis to hear a new ...
Page xii
... Morning Call from Perpetua and Calliste in her own Room -Their Colloquy - Of the School of Eloquence - Why there are no " Strong- minded Women " in Heaven - Perpetua's Opinion of Woman's Rights - Of Modern Fashions - Influence of the ...
... Morning Call from Perpetua and Calliste in her own Room -Their Colloquy - Of the School of Eloquence - Why there are no " Strong- minded Women " in Heaven - Perpetua's Opinion of Woman's Rights - Of Modern Fashions - Influence of the ...
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... morning star over his fore- head . By a law of sympathy , as undefined in heaven as on earth , these two shining ones drew nearer and nearer , until , in immediate proximity , they awoke to the consciousness of each other's presence ...
... morning star over his fore- head . By a law of sympathy , as undefined in heaven as on earth , these two shining ones drew nearer and nearer , until , in immediate proximity , they awoke to the consciousness of each other's presence ...
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... morning , my excellent friend , Dr. Hall , came up to see me , and prescribed . My fever raged with violence for five days , and I began to realize the possibility that this was to be my last sickness , and that soon I should stand ...
... morning , my excellent friend , Dr. Hall , came up to see me , and prescribed . My fever raged with violence for five days , and I began to realize the possibility that this was to be my last sickness , and that soon I should stand ...
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... morning star shining above my forehead . " I lingered awhile , anxious to manifest myself to those who stood around my bed weeping . It was all in vain that I spoke to them ; and thus I grew into the full conscious- ness of my separate ...
... morning star shining above my forehead . " I lingered awhile , anxious to manifest myself to those who stood around my bed weeping . It was all in vain that I spoke to them ; and thus I grew into the full conscious- ness of my separate ...
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Page 302 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 106 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 66 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 265 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
Page 42 - Christians here, and of these we have a great multitude which no man can number. of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues.
Page 352 - To him that hath loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood, to him be glory both now and forever.
Page 215 - British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature...
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 97 - Commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r ; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 96 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The Old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.