The First Lieutenant's Story, Volume 140Routledge, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... sufferings which make one's heart bleed , while one cannot raise a finger in help . But a little word of God's peace will sometimes cheer a drooping spirit , if Satan's power be not too hard upon it . You seem , I am happy to see , to ...
... sufferings which make one's heart bleed , while one cannot raise a finger in help . But a little word of God's peace will sometimes cheer a drooping spirit , if Satan's power be not too hard upon it . You seem , I am happy to see , to ...
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... sufferings you had endured for me , -benefits you had procured me , asking me too , to do such and such things for my own happiness , and your love's sake , and I refused , or neglected to read your letter , throwing it aside with other ...
... sufferings you had endured for me , -benefits you had procured me , asking me too , to do such and such things for my own happiness , and your love's sake , and I refused , or neglected to read your letter , throwing it aside with other ...
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... suffering . How could then Jesus have suffered , had not our sins been laid upon Him - he bearing the punishment of them for us ? And as by His sufferings He took away our punishment , so by His having kept perfectly the holy law of God ...
... suffering . How could then Jesus have suffered , had not our sins been laid upon Him - he bearing the punishment of them for us ? And as by His sufferings He took away our punishment , so by His having kept perfectly the holy law of God ...
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... sufferings of that hour - not one quarter of which he guessed- to give without delay that formal consent to our engagement which alone could tranquillize my mind as regarded Mary during my absence ; but the more intense my anxiety ...
... sufferings of that hour - not one quarter of which he guessed- to give without delay that formal consent to our engagement which alone could tranquillize my mind as regarded Mary during my absence ; but the more intense my anxiety ...
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... sufferings with myself , -creatures of the same Creator , and capable of being partakers of the same blest and heavenly call- ing . A glow of kindliness warmed my heart towards them all ; and , from the happiness it imparted , I began ...
... sufferings with myself , -creatures of the same Creator , and capable of being partakers of the same blest and heavenly call- ing . A glow of kindliness warmed my heart towards them all ; and , from the happiness it imparted , I began ...
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Page 329 - Blest power of sunshine ! — genial Day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb.
Page 156 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown, — Yet must thou hear a voice — restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.
Page 25 - Yet, fill'd with all youth's sweet desires, Mingling the meek and vestal fires Of other worlds with all the bliss, The fond, weak tenderness of this ! A soul, too, more than half divine, Where, through some shades of earthly feeling, Religion's...
Page 356 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
Page 156 - Give back the lost and lovely ! those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long, The prayer went up...