A Tribute of RespectJ. Munsell, 1865 - 342 pages |
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Page 150 - thy fate ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, — are all with thee !
Page 286 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Page 116 - Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.— Psalm, Ixii, 8. Never, perhaps, in the history of the world, did the heart of any nation throb with such sorrow as does ours
Page 274 - That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."* And
Page 323 - and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgest.
Page 151 - And Saul also went home to Gibeah ; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. But the children of Belial said, how shall this man save us ? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.— 1 SAMUEL,
Page 23 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit: Is there any hope ? To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand; And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Page 319 - Wherefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water. And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Page 150 - Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hope* of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,
Page 274 - daily increase in them His manifold gifts of grace, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and true godliness, and fill them with the spirit of