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... friends repeatedly wake him when dozing off in an arm - chair - a self - sacrifice which those who indulge that habit will appreciate . To try whether the mind is always active , he caused himself to be roused at different seasons of ...
... friends repeatedly wake him when dozing off in an arm - chair - a self - sacrifice which those who indulge that habit will appreciate . To try whether the mind is always active , he caused himself to be roused at different seasons of ...
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... friends no hopes of his recovery , yet he lived to the age of 93 ; and Dr. Heberden notes- " this has been the case with some others who had many symptoms of consumption in youth . " MAN'S PROPER PLACE IN CREATION . Professor Daubeny ...
... friends no hopes of his recovery , yet he lived to the age of 93 ; and Dr. Heberden notes- " this has been the case with some others who had many symptoms of consumption in youth . " MAN'S PROPER PLACE IN CREATION . Professor Daubeny ...
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... Lead us to solid wrong ; We pray God our friends ' torments to prolong , And wish uncharitably for them To be as long a dying as Methusalem . The Imprisoned Soul and the Magnetic Needle . 39 The 38 Nature of the Soul .
... Lead us to solid wrong ; We pray God our friends ' torments to prolong , And wish uncharitably for them To be as long a dying as Methusalem . The Imprisoned Soul and the Magnetic Needle . 39 The 38 Nature of the Soul .
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... friend , & c . A much older author than either yet quoted , Raimond Lull , of Majorca , who died in 1315 , says : As the needle turneth by nature to the north , when it is touched by the magnet , so it behoves that thy servant should ...
... friend , & c . A much older author than either yet quoted , Raimond Lull , of Majorca , who died in 1315 , says : As the needle turneth by nature to the north , when it is touched by the magnet , so it behoves that thy servant should ...
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... Rector of Bath ( the friend of Meric Casaubon and of Baxter , and a metaphysician of singular vigour and acuteness ) , published in 1662 , but without his name , a treatise to prove the reasonableness of the doctrine . * It was.
... Rector of Bath ( the friend of Meric Casaubon and of Baxter , and a metaphysician of singular vigour and acuteness ) , published in 1662 , but without his name , a treatise to prove the reasonableness of the doctrine . * It was.
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Page 111 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning?
Page 222 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 215 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 138 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 117 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 5 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 54 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 195 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 86 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 110 - ... that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires.