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" ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food, it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... "
The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University Extension and to ... - Page 121
1896
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ..., Volume 32

American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...that cover the whole earth, who notices the tricksy play of light and shadow, who watches the sky, " sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity," he must believe that there is in nature that which is designed to convey thoughts to the human soul...
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The North British Review, Volume 6

English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our...
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Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 1

Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing and purifying of it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement, or of blessing, to what is mortal, is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 6

1850 - 590 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 6

Medicine - 1850 - 588 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heBrt, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful—never the same for two moments together ; almost human in...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 35

Literature - 1852 - 644 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our...
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 3

Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, somtimes awful : never the game for two moments together ; almost human in its passions,...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it — we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...the same for two moments together ; almost human in i's passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what...
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