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... action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a God ! Lovely art thou , O Peace ! and lovely are thy chil- dren , and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps in the green valleys ! A competence is all we can enjoy : Oh , 28 READING .
... action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a God ! Lovely art thou , O Peace ! and lovely are thy chil- dren , and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps in the green valleys ! A competence is all we can enjoy : Oh , 28 READING .
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... Thou art a very honest fellow , " replied the lawyer , " and wilt not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return . " " It is no more than justice , " quoth the farmer , " to be sure ; but - what did I say It is your ...
... Thou art a very honest fellow , " replied the lawyer , " and wilt not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return . " " It is no more than justice , " quoth the farmer , " to be sure ; but - what did I say It is your ...
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... thou the móte that is in thy brother's éye , but considerest not the beam that is in thine ownèye ? G. As it is the part of jústice | never to do violence ; so it is the part of modesty | never to commit offènce . H. Custom is the ...
... thou the móte that is in thy brother's éye , but considerest not the beam that is in thine ownèye ? G. As it is the part of jústice | never to do violence ; so it is the part of modesty | never to commit offènce . H. Custom is the ...
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... thou hast fed ༔ us hitherto , so give us this day our daily bread : or , As thou hast supplied us the past dáy , so give us this dáyour daily bread . C. I have one from the 43d Psalm : " Enter not into judgment with thy servant , for in ...
... thou hast fed ༔ us hitherto , so give us this day our daily bread : or , As thou hast supplied us the past dáy , so give us this dáyour daily bread . C. I have one from the 43d Psalm : " Enter not into judgment with thy servant , for in ...
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... thou wilt receive mi commandments with thee ; so that thou incline thine earunto wisdom , and apply thine heart to un- derstanding ; yea , if thou criest after knowledge , and liftest up thy voice fur understanding ; if thou seekest her ...
... thou wilt receive mi commandments with thee ; so that thou incline thine earunto wisdom , and apply thine heart to un- derstanding ; yea , if thou criest after knowledge , and liftest up thy voice fur understanding ; if thou seekest her ...
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Page 310 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as
Page 103 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 300 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 287 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 367 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 77 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 260 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 101 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 377 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.