The Professional Years of John Henry Hobart: Being a Sequel to His "Early Years"Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836 - 500 pages |
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... truth that should distinguish him who is called to govern or to teach . With a view to unite these two pictures , the one personal , the other official , it has been the author's aim to make the former serve as it were , as a frame ...
... truth that should distinguish him who is called to govern or to teach . With a view to unite these two pictures , the one personal , the other official , it has been the author's aim to make the former serve as it were , as a frame ...
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... truth he did not , all that a romantic fancy had pictured , still it neither would , nor ought to have satisfied him long . The day - dreams of youth had passed , and the period of repose had not yet come ; and , under the sterner ...
... truth he did not , all that a romantic fancy had pictured , still it neither would , nor ought to have satisfied him long . The day - dreams of youth had passed , and the period of repose had not yet come ; and , under the sterner ...
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... truth , here to draw a broad line of distinction between that honorable spirit of action which certainly belonged to him , and which rests not beneath its natural level , and that vulgar personal ambi- tion with which it is sometimes ...
... truth , here to draw a broad line of distinction between that honorable spirit of action which certainly belonged to him , and which rests not beneath its natural level , and that vulgar personal ambi- tion with which it is sometimes ...
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... truth should appear to his hearers that he is speaking from memory , and not from impulse . He therefore studies to resemble that which he would fain seem to be , and thus learns to imitate the extemporaneous speaker in diffuse phrase ...
... truth should appear to his hearers that he is speaking from memory , and not from impulse . He therefore studies to resemble that which he would fain seem to be , and thus learns to imitate the extemporaneous speaker in diffuse phrase ...
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... truth , the precise truth , and the whole truth , in reference to what- ever point of Christian duty or doctrine may be his theme . Nor need such delivery be wanting in any one element of power : that which is written in earnestness may ...
... truth , the precise truth , and the whole truth , in reference to what- ever point of Christian duty or doctrine may be his theme . Nor need such delivery be wanting in any one element of power : that which is written in earnestness may ...
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Page 10 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 174 - O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee ; Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 345 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 480 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 363 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love and nothing for reward, O why should heavenly God to men have such regard *." This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 340 - ARE you ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's Word; and both privately and openly to call upon and encourage others to the same ? Answer.
Page 453 - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 176 - The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Page 319 - For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Page 402 - With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —