The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1Baker and Fletcher, 1823 - Education |
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... bear the shame , so he but finds the remedy . It is thus that the thought of God's omniscient eye , surveying every secret of our hearts , becomes a grateful contemplation - it is thus that at every movement of the sin we hate , we can ...
... bear the shame , so he but finds the remedy . It is thus that the thought of God's omniscient eye , surveying every secret of our hearts , becomes a grateful contemplation - it is thus that at every movement of the sin we hate , we can ...
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... upon innocent mistakes - no dry lectures upon well - known evils ; but I bear about with me as it were a reflecting glass , which I present to the actors in the scenes before me , that seeing in it what is , they 16 THE LISTENER .
... upon innocent mistakes - no dry lectures upon well - known evils ; but I bear about with me as it were a reflecting glass , which I present to the actors in the scenes before me , that seeing in it what is , they 16 THE LISTENER .
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... bears rather the character of death than of repose - when the ear , listening in vain for so much as the falling of a withered leaf , a momentary sensation steals upon the mind that we only are remaining in existence , while all is ...
... bears rather the character of death than of repose - when the ear , listening in vain for so much as the falling of a withered leaf , a momentary sensation steals upon the mind that we only are remaining in existence , while all is ...
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... amongst them that seemed to bear the weight of twenty years , and some not half that number . The little group were variously occupied . Some were 1 examining the wild flowers , or turning over the shells THE LISTENER 19.
... amongst them that seemed to bear the weight of twenty years , and some not half that number . The little group were variously occupied . Some were 1 examining the wild flowers , or turning over the shells THE LISTENER 19.
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... bear us is gather'd in heaven . ' Twill be well for poor Anna in life's after years , If too much engross'd by the joys of the hour , Too eager to seize on the pleasures of earth , She lose not the fruit for the sake of the flower ...
... bear us is gather'd in heaven . ' Twill be well for poor Anna in life's after years , If too much engross'd by the joys of the hour , Too eager to seize on the pleasures of earth , She lose not the fruit for the sake of the flower ...
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Page 120 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 83 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 147 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 203 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 265 - The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 318 - O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing which is evil : the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.
Page 184 - TERTULLIAN first shows|| how God promised to Abraham that in his seed should all the families of the earth be blessed; and that he should be the father of two nations, the Jews and the Gentiles.
Page 184 - There always was, and always will be, an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.
Page 316 - Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Page 306 - All the time she dwelt in the Tower, if any were sick she made them broths and restoratives with her own hands, visited and took care of them, and provided them all necessaries ; if any were afflicted she comforted them, so that they felt not the inconvenience of a prison who were in that place.