William CowperJ. Cape, 1928 - 319 pages |
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Page 68
... sense of God's wrath , and a deep despair of escaping it ' now took possession of him . He no longer suffered simply from a sense of desertion by God . His amiable weakness and indecision , culminating in the agonized attempt at suicide ...
... sense of God's wrath , and a deep despair of escaping it ' now took possession of him . He no longer suffered simply from a sense of desertion by God . His amiable weakness and indecision , culminating in the agonized attempt at suicide ...
Page 208
... sense , his own . And when he wrote of the Royal George - It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock . the weight of his own impassive foundering was behind the words . The ...
... sense , his own . And when he wrote of the Royal George - It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock . the weight of his own impassive foundering was behind the words . The ...
Page 308
... sense of identity with everything , so negative experience ends in a sense of utter nonentity . And he whose nerves have quivered long in an agony of fear is reduced at last to nerveless impotence . 82 Five years of a posthumous ...
... sense of identity with everything , so negative experience ends in a sense of utter nonentity . And he whose nerves have quivered long in an agony of fear is reduced at last to nerveless impotence . 82 Five years of a posthumous ...
Contents
THE SEEDS OF MISFORTUNE Page | 15 |
THE HARVEST OF PROVIDENCE | 65 |
THE REV JOHN NEWTON | 99 |
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