Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... mind exaggerated estimates of his numbers , bore perfect fruit in the rout- ing of Marshall , the capture of his camp , the dispersion of his force and the emancipation of an important terri- tory from the control of the rebellion ...
... mind exaggerated estimates of his numbers , bore perfect fruit in the rout- ing of Marshall , the capture of his camp , the dispersion of his force and the emancipation of an important terri- tory from the control of the rebellion ...
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... sect of that great Baptist communion , which in different ecclesiastical establishments is so nu- merous and so influential throughout all parts of the United States . But the broadening tendency of his mind 16 BEST SELECTIONS.
... sect of that great Baptist communion , which in different ecclesiastical establishments is so nu- merous and so influential throughout all parts of the United States . But the broadening tendency of his mind 16 BEST SELECTIONS.
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Jacob W. Shoemaker. United States . But the broadening tendency of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry were early appa- rent , and carried him beyond the dogmas of sect and the restraints of association . The crowning ...
Jacob W. Shoemaker. United States . But the broadening tendency of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry were early appa- rent , and carried him beyond the dogmas of sect and the restraints of association . The crowning ...
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... mind made up that if the thing can be done on a capital of six millions , that's the horse to put up money on ! Why , Washington - but what's the use talking about it - every man can see that there's whole Atlantic Oceans of cash in it ...
... mind made up that if the thing can be done on a capital of six millions , that's the horse to put up money on ! Why , Washington - but what's the use talking about it - every man can see that there's whole Atlantic Oceans of cash in it ...
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... mind . Was this the plain family ? And was it all present ? It was soon apparent that this was indeed the dinner : it was all on the table : it con- sisted of abundance of clear , fresh water , and a basin of raw turnips - nothing more ...
... mind . Was this the plain family ? And was it all present ? It was soon apparent that this was indeed the dinner : it was all on the table : it con- sisted of abundance of clear , fresh water , and a basin of raw turnips - nothing more ...
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Popular passages
Page 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Page 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.