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... human race lived amidst a world of speaking symbols . They saw the properties of animals at a glance ; the fit names came at once to their lips ; and the foundation of all language was laid in the analogies of nature . The voice of God ...
... human race lived amidst a world of speaking symbols . They saw the properties of animals at a glance ; the fit names came at once to their lips ; and the foundation of all language was laid in the analogies of nature . The voice of God ...
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... human body separated from any of the surrounding elements which are necessary to the coninual renovation of its vital energies . The great , constant , essential tendency to decay , under which all bodies , however nourished , grow old ...
... human body separated from any of the surrounding elements which are necessary to the coninual renovation of its vital energies . The great , constant , essential tendency to decay , under which all bodies , however nourished , grow old ...
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... human frame ; of sickness which would else have been an unknown thought , and of decay , which the fruit of the unforbidden Tree of Life would for ever have averted . Shame and fear accompanied the consciousness of guilt and the ...
... human frame ; of sickness which would else have been an unknown thought , and of decay , which the fruit of the unforbidden Tree of Life would for ever have averted . Shame and fear accompanied the consciousness of guilt and the ...
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... human conqueror . A mark of peculiar sorrow was fixed upon the hour which gives birth to a mortal ; a mark , that should fitly betoken the gateway of a world of tears . But she who bore it should still be the mother of the liv- ing ...
... human conqueror . A mark of peculiar sorrow was fixed upon the hour which gives birth to a mortal ; a mark , that should fitly betoken the gateway of a world of tears . But she who bore it should still be the mother of the liv- ing ...
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... human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees of the garden , and with them that wondrous tree in their midst , withered away . Over the soil from which they grew , and into which , per- haps , they sank , the waters may have spread ...
... human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees of the garden , and with them that wondrous tree in their midst , withered away . Over the soil from which they grew , and into which , per- haps , they sank , the waters may have spread ...
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Page 239 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 287 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 55 - The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 216 - He took the Cup; and, when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this ; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins : Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me.
Page 92 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body; And, with a sudden vigour., it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 25 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 295 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 222 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 222 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Page 199 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis...