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Pàgina 7
... poor maniac , stretched on the lonely couch of sorrow , spends his time in melancholy ravings of fancied happiness or ideal greatness ; a great portion of them sup- pose themselves to be people of distinction . Might not this insanity ...
... poor maniac , stretched on the lonely couch of sorrow , spends his time in melancholy ravings of fancied happiness or ideal greatness ; a great portion of them sup- pose themselves to be people of distinction . Might not this insanity ...
Pàgina 9
... poor , nor infirmaries for the sick . The learning of the Greeks nursed their pride , and made them contemn the poor . The warlike prowess of the Romans made them en- courage barbarous spectacles and rough manners ; but no sooner did ...
... poor , nor infirmaries for the sick . The learning of the Greeks nursed their pride , and made them contemn the poor . The warlike prowess of the Romans made them en- courage barbarous spectacles and rough manners ; but no sooner did ...
Pàgina 10
... poor rich , and the man of an humble and contrite heart highest in the estima- tion of God . Without charity , the profession of religion is vain . " God is love , " and obedience to his com- mands is love to him and to our brethren of ...
... poor rich , and the man of an humble and contrite heart highest in the estima- tion of God . Without charity , the profession of religion is vain . " God is love , " and obedience to his com- mands is love to him and to our brethren of ...
Pàgina 18
... poor brother ? Their worldly - mindedness blinds them and weakens their faith ; God delights more in mercy than in all other offerings . How little does all human gran- deur appear when elevated above it ! Did I not know London was the ...
... poor brother ? Their worldly - mindedness blinds them and weakens their faith ; God delights more in mercy than in all other offerings . How little does all human gran- deur appear when elevated above it ! Did I not know London was the ...
Pàgina 34
... poor nor the unlettered . Plato , the most sublime amongst them , retired to a cottage in his garden , and there taught the youth of Athens his system of philosophy ; but over his gate was written , " None but those who have stu- died ...
... poor nor the unlettered . Plato , the most sublime amongst them , retired to a cottage in his garden , and there taught the youth of Athens his system of philosophy ; but over his gate was written , " None but those who have stu- died ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 243 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Pàgina 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Pàgina 92 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Pàgina 93 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Pàgina 88 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Pàgina 42 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Pàgina 174 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Pàgina 109 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Pàgina 133 - Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Pàgina 56 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...