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... virtue : “ I dare not so much as lift up my eyes to that allurement ; I dare not confide it to my thoughts ; I will flee from it into the bosom of the deep , and into the nethermost parts of the world ; if God save me not , I am lost ...
... virtue : “ I dare not so much as lift up my eyes to that allurement ; I dare not confide it to my thoughts ; I will flee from it into the bosom of the deep , and into the nethermost parts of the world ; if God save me not , I am lost ...
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... virtues , and between vices ; that one virtue fairly established in the character , will pro- bably introduce many others , that one sin corrupting our nature , will generate , and- nourish many other principles of corruption ; so that ...
... virtues , and between vices ; that one virtue fairly established in the character , will pro- bably introduce many others , that one sin corrupting our nature , will generate , and- nourish many other principles of corruption ; so that ...
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... virtue , we gain other virtues asso- ciated with it : He who withstands the sin of avarice , withstands the tempta- tion to hardness of heart , and callous indifference to human misfortune ; he who has all his bodily appetites in ...
... virtue , we gain other virtues asso- ciated with it : He who withstands the sin of avarice , withstands the tempta- tion to hardness of heart , and callous indifference to human misfortune ; he who has all his bodily appetites in ...
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... virtues of our country ; the good deeds our fathers have done , warm our hearts to mercy ; their generation is past away , and they are all sleeping in their tombs : but as their blood gives us life , so may their noble thoughts yet ...
... virtues of our country ; the good deeds our fathers have done , warm our hearts to mercy ; their generation is past away , and they are all sleeping in their tombs : but as their blood gives us life , so may their noble thoughts yet ...
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... virtue , and sometimes a decency , and sometimes a vice ; it gives birth to the man of refined manners , the profligate , the saint , and the hero ; it plays with the toy of the child ; it totters on the crutch of age ; it lingers it ...
... virtue , and sometimes a decency , and sometimes a vice ; it gives birth to the man of refined manners , the profligate , the saint , and the hero ; it plays with the toy of the child ; it totters on the crutch of age ; it lingers it ...
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Page 195 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 195 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 131 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Page 173 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Page 130 - And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Page 271 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 272 - What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart ? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 273 - And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Page 273 - But none of these things move me ; neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 169 - ... with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company: for the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven. They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us: but we fight for our lives and our laws. Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.