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... placed in it , and neglect that line of conduct by which alone you can become prepared for a better inheritance ! And is it in the flight of three score years , To push eternity from human thought , dodh And smother souls immortal in ...
... placed in it , and neglect that line of conduct by which alone you can become prepared for a better inheritance ! And is it in the flight of three score years , To push eternity from human thought , dodh And smother souls immortal in ...
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... placed amidst the terrific scene , our estates crowded with armies , and ourselves surrounded with the deafening clangour , enveloped in the smoke of the cannon , stunned with the cries , and drenched in the blood of our companions , placed ...
... placed amidst the terrific scene , our estates crowded with armies , and ourselves surrounded with the deafening clangour , enveloped in the smoke of the cannon , stunned with the cries , and drenched in the blood of our companions , placed ...
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... placed . But death , as if he took pleasure in spreading alarms , by smiting the most unlikely , has removed these from the society of men , " All casts of conduct , all degrees of health , All dies of fortune , and all dates of age ...
... placed . But death , as if he took pleasure in spreading alarms , by smiting the most unlikely , has removed these from the society of men , " All casts of conduct , all degrees of health , All dies of fortune , and all dates of age ...
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... placed in the grave , and then what you now deem evil is no more . But we have witnessed a scene more . mournful than this . We have seen the female who some years before bathed the remains of her husband with her tears , who has ...
... placed in the grave , and then what you now deem evil is no more . But we have witnessed a scene more . mournful than this . We have seen the female who some years before bathed the remains of her husband with her tears , who has ...
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... placed in a society where no such necessities exist . Have you not witnessed the removal of a Senator at a time when apparently the welfare of a nation has depended upon his presence and counsels ! For years he has suggested these ...
... placed in a society where no such necessities exist . Have you not witnessed the removal of a Senator at a time when apparently the welfare of a nation has depended upon his presence and counsels ! For years he has suggested these ...
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Page 407 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 14 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 37 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; And I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 214 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 360 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 111 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 111 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 406 - 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.
Page 14 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.