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... comrades are proceeding on , and , by and by , arrive with the commodore at their intended port . In like manner , this world is , in a spiritual sense , one continued scene of warfare . We pro- fess that at our baptism we came under ...
... comrades are proceeding on , and , by and by , arrive with the commodore at their intended port . In like manner , this world is , in a spiritual sense , one continued scene of warfare . We pro- fess that at our baptism we came under ...
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... comrades did before them . This was the case with the poor infatuated Israelites , whom the Lord led for forty years in the wilderness , and before whose eyes he made so many of his judgments and mercies to pass . But they tempted and ...
... comrades did before them . This was the case with the poor infatuated Israelites , whom the Lord led for forty years in the wilderness , and before whose eyes he made so many of his judgments and mercies to pass . But they tempted and ...
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... comrades were returning to Scotland , with a cargo of tallow , hemp , & c . & c . and were very near their destined port when , in the middle watch , they struck on Keith's shoal at a time they were running at the rate of nine knots an ...
... comrades were returning to Scotland , with a cargo of tallow , hemp , & c . & c . and were very near their destined port when , in the middle watch , they struck on Keith's shoal at a time they were running at the rate of nine knots an ...
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... comrades of the poor shipwrecked mariner at my door , who have been torn from this world , and from this life , at so unexpected , and , many of them , at so un- prepared an hour , my heart really aches , espe- cially for the fate of ...
... comrades of the poor shipwrecked mariner at my door , who have been torn from this world , and from this life , at so unexpected , and , many of them , at so un- prepared an hour , my heart really aches , espe- cially for the fate of ...
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... comrades , brought , as I before observed , to my recollec tion the loss of these , and many other of my former acquaintance , and the whole that pre- sented itself to my mind would have furnished real matter for the tragic muse . For a ...
... comrades , brought , as I before observed , to my recollec tion the loss of these , and many other of my former acquaintance , and the whole that pre- sented itself to my mind would have furnished real matter for the tragic muse . For a ...
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Page 175 - May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet.
Page 30 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 11 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 12 - Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Page 126 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 22 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Page 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 11 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Page 96 - Lord, and in the power of his might ; to put on the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.