Heroes in the strife; or, The temperance testimonies of some eminent men |
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... success in all conditions of life . Failing this , to borrow the words of the foremost thinker of our time , " One comfort is , that Great Men taken up in any way , are profitable company . We cannot look , however imperfectly , upon a ...
... success in all conditions of life . Failing this , to borrow the words of the foremost thinker of our time , " One comfort is , that Great Men taken up in any way , are profitable company . We cannot look , however imperfectly , upon a ...
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... successful students of the Science and Art Classes promoted by the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers ' Society , Mr. Bright gave a glowing picture of his boyhood's hours . After assuring his hearers that there was hardly anybody who knew less ...
... successful students of the Science and Art Classes promoted by the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers ' Society , Mr. Bright gave a glowing picture of his boyhood's hours . After assuring his hearers that there was hardly anybody who knew less ...
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... successful students of the Science and Art Classes promoted by the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers ' Society , Mr. Bright gave a glowing picture of his boyhood's hours . After assuring his hearers that there was hardly anybody who knew less ...
... successful students of the Science and Art Classes promoted by the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers ' Society , Mr. Bright gave a glowing picture of his boyhood's hours . After assuring his hearers that there was hardly anybody who knew less ...
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... success . His maiden speech was spoken in the House on August 7th , 1843 , and was in the advocacy of Free Trade . Four years later he retired from Durham , and became a member for Manchester , which he represented for ten years ...
... success . His maiden speech was spoken in the House on August 7th , 1843 , and was in the advocacy of Free Trade . Four years later he retired from Durham , and became a member for Manchester , which he represented for ten years ...
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... success . He writes : - " I cannot say I have ever seen a more awful sight than when on Rose - Green , or on the top of Hanham- Mount , some thousands of people were joined to- gether in solemn waiting upon God , while ' They stood ...
... success . He writes : - " I cannot say I have ever seen a more awful sight than when on Rose - Green , or on the top of Hanham- Mount , some thousands of people were joined to- gether in solemn waiting upon God , while ' They stood ...
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Page 11 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Page 28 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans." About a quarter before nine...
Page 27 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 34 - I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers: My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 225 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 34 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Page 53 - Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with and aid me, I must fail ; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me I shall not fail — I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now. To him I commend you all. Permit me to ask that with equal sincerity and faith you will invoke his wisdom and guidance for me. With these words I must leave you, for how long I know not. Friends, one...
Page 154 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors.
Page 56 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 243 - Death, be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures...