Evergreen, Volume 1Salkeld, Hitchcock, & Stafford, 1844 - Christian literature, American |
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... beautiful summer afternoon , I was venerable church . I approached him , and bowing , told riding leisurely along a road new and strange to me , him that I was a stranger in this neighborhood , and in one of the southern countics of ...
... beautiful summer afternoon , I was venerable church . I approached him , and bowing , told riding leisurely along a road new and strange to me , him that I was a stranger in this neighborhood , and in one of the southern countics of ...
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... beautiful form of Louisa . Her aunt was bending over her , gently vibrating a fan ; and a young gentleman was stand- ing near , reading aloud from the New Testament thanks to God that she had been afforded this season of communion and ...
... beautiful form of Louisa . Her aunt was bending over her , gently vibrating a fan ; and a young gentleman was stand- ing near , reading aloud from the New Testament thanks to God that she had been afforded this season of communion and ...
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... beautiful , and We speak not of what has been , but what shall be . interesting . And Italy and Greece have but one sin- " Coming events , " says the proverb , " cast their shad - gular character , told in the soft , luxuriant ...
... beautiful , and We speak not of what has been , but what shall be . interesting . And Italy and Greece have but one sin- " Coming events , " says the proverb , " cast their shad - gular character , told in the soft , luxuriant ...
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... beautiful , and unconceived proportions , the peculiarities of all . And Religion , likewise , shall stand forth in her loftiest and sweetest aspect , with boldness and humility , truth and love , enthroned in her eye , when American ...
... beautiful , and unconceived proportions , the peculiarities of all . And Religion , likewise , shall stand forth in her loftiest and sweetest aspect , with boldness and humility , truth and love , enthroned in her eye , when American ...
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... beautiful suburbs , all that could awe the imagination or gratify the senses , it naturally offered itself as one of those commanding posts from which , as from so many centres , the dread power of Rome was wont to issue unquestioned ...
... beautiful suburbs , all that could awe the imagination or gratify the senses , it naturally offered itself as one of those commanding posts from which , as from so many centres , the dread power of Rome was wont to issue unquestioned ...
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Page 154 - Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 146 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 94 - Christian life: remembering always, that baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour CHRIST, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Page 287 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical...
Page 253 - And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me.
Page 113 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 154 - And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 286 - Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.
Page 314 - I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb, Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Page 35 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.