Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author of 'Scriptural instruction for the least and lowest'.1855 |
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... blessings born to die . The soul on earth is an immortal guest , Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast ; A spark , which upward tends by nature's force ; A stream , diverted from its parent source ; A drop , dissever'd from the ...
... blessings born to die . The soul on earth is an immortal guest , Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast ; A spark , which upward tends by nature's force ; A stream , diverted from its parent source ; A drop , dissever'd from the ...
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... affected , gave her his blessing , and then the mournful procession moved on . More was visited in prison by his family and friends , and they were all astonished to see how composed and even cheerful he was to the 62 OUR NATIVE LAND .
... affected , gave her his blessing , and then the mournful procession moved on . More was visited in prison by his family and friends , and they were all astonished to see how composed and even cheerful he was to the 62 OUR NATIVE LAND .
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... blessed martyr . " There is one little incident related concerning him which I will tell you , because it is a pleasing instance of a grateful disposition , and shows us that he did not , in prosperity , forget those who had been useful ...
... blessed martyr . " There is one little incident related concerning him which I will tell you , because it is a pleasing instance of a grateful disposition , and shows us that he did not , in prosperity , forget those who had been useful ...
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... blessed change , to that God who had ordered all things so wisely and mercifully for the in- troduction of the truth into our land ! But opposition was not yet at an end ; the struggle was not yet over ; and , as we shall soon see ...
... blessed change , to that God who had ordered all things so wisely and mercifully for the in- troduction of the truth into our land ! But opposition was not yet at an end ; the struggle was not yet over ; and , as we shall soon see ...
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... blessing to the peo- ple whom he ruled . But the ways of God are not as our ways . He often sees fit to blight our hopes , and to take away the best men , the most useful , and those who seem to us the most necessary , at the very time ...
... blessing to the peo- ple whom he ruled . But the ways of God are not as our ways . He often sees fit to blight our hopes , and to take away the best men , the most useful , and those who seem to us the most necessary , at the very time ...
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Страница 364 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Страница 164 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Страница 57 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Страница 57 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Страница 353 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Страница 272 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Страница 360 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Страница 157 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Страница 267 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Страница 293 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.