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... approach and eat its fruit , was to pass through some gentle transforma- tion , as if from glory to glory . Without dying , the insect lies down to its chrysalis slumber , and then spreads its light wings , a beautiful inhabitant of the ...
... approach and eat its fruit , was to pass through some gentle transforma- tion , as if from glory to glory . Without dying , the insect lies down to its chrysalis slumber , and then spreads its light wings , a beautiful inhabitant of the ...
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... approach the pole , the sun just reaches the horizon , and , without setting , ascends anew , so that no night intervenes between the evening and the morning . If they passed into another and a higher being , it would be as angels have ...
... approach the pole , the sun just reaches the horizon , and , without setting , ascends anew , so that no night intervenes between the evening and the morning . If they passed into another and a higher being , it would be as angels have ...
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... approach ; till Paradise itself was no more . The flood left no tradition of the time when these bright guards were last seen by human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees . of the garden , and with them that wondrous tree in ...
... approach ; till Paradise itself was no more . The flood left no tradition of the time when these bright guards were last seen by human eyes ; and no mortal beheld when the trees . of the garden , and with them that wondrous tree in ...
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... approach- ing hour casts a peculiar , tender shadow over the spirit of the sufferer , or that there seems something like an involuntary generosity in dying that another may have life , whatever be the exact cause , such deaths are ...
... approach- ing hour casts a peculiar , tender shadow over the spirit of the sufferer , or that there seems something like an involuntary generosity in dying that another may have life , whatever be the exact cause , such deaths are ...
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... approach of an intimate associate . De- lirium , and even long insanity , has yielded , as if before the light of a higher sphere . Unusual powers of utter- ance have appeared ; a flow of thought and expression , such as characterizes ...
... approach of an intimate associate . De- lirium , and even long insanity , has yielded , as if before the light of a higher sphere . Unusual powers of utter- ance have appeared ; a flow of thought and expression , such as characterizes ...
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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 25 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those who in their turn shall follow them.
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 210 - O my Father, if this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
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 218 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 287 - And white robes were given unto every one of them ; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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 295 - The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead...
Page 237 - Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God ; A port of calms, a state of ease From the rough rage of swelling seas.