A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh: With Selections from His ... Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, &c. ...Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1831 - 620 pages |
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... character and condition of the old Scottish tenantry . The life of the husbandman and his depend- ents , in those days , was so far from being unen- livened by mirth and enjoyment , that there was in truth much more real enjoyment than ...
... character and condition of the old Scottish tenantry . The life of the husbandman and his depend- ents , in those days , was so far from being unen- livened by mirth and enjoyment , that there was in truth much more real enjoyment than ...
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... character , produced a baneful effect upon the religious habits and good morals of this class of the population . About the same period , the small farmers were almost entirely superseded in a number of the agricultural counties by an ...
... character , produced a baneful effect upon the religious habits and good morals of this class of the population . About the same period , the small farmers were almost entirely superseded in a number of the agricultural counties by an ...
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... father's house , he frequently , in after - life , reverted with the most lively feelings of grateful delight . He was wont often to quote the striking expressions used by his father DR . WAUGH'S CHARACTER OF HIS FATHER . 13.
... father's house , he frequently , in after - life , reverted with the most lively feelings of grateful delight . He was wont often to quote the striking expressions used by his father DR . WAUGH'S CHARACTER OF HIS FATHER . 13.
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... character . Born of eminently pious parents , Alexander John- stone , farmer in East Gordon , and Elizabeth Waugh , her mind at an early period was formed to the love of goodness . Through life she main- tained the character of a godly ...
... character . Born of eminently pious parents , Alexander John- stone , farmer in East Gordon , and Elizabeth Waugh , her mind at an early period was formed to the love of goodness . Through life she main- tained the character of a godly ...
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... character . The peculiarities of his manner , though numerous , were perfectly inoffensive ; and , under a rough exterior , he possessed much kindness of heart . No two brothers could have evinced , gene- rally , dispositions more ...
... character . The peculiarities of his manner , though numerous , were perfectly inoffensive ; and , under a rough exterior , he possessed much kindness of heart . No two brothers could have evinced , gene- rally , dispositions more ...
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Page 566 - And when he came to himself, he said. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare ; and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 200 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 317 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 558 - O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 390 - I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Page 487 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll. For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the...
Page 120 - If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
Page 529 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 270 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 535 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.