The Living Age, Volume 269E. Littell & Company, 1911 |
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... eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help . ” -Psalm cxxi . I lift mine eyes to Thy high hills , O God , To seek the strength they give ; The patience of their mighty lives Can teach me how to live . I lift mine eyes to Thy calm ...
... eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help . ” -Psalm cxxi . I lift mine eyes to Thy high hills , O God , To seek the strength they give ; The patience of their mighty lives Can teach me how to live . I lift mine eyes to Thy calm ...
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... eyes , and David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near ...
... eyes , and David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near ...
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... eyes , which had been look- ing on the ground during his last speech , saw that her face was con- The Times . vulsed ... eye , and there are many wild - flowers . The sol- itude of it all , and the feeling that even in the modern railway ...
... eyes , which had been look- ing on the ground during his last speech , saw that her face was con- The Times . vulsed ... eye , and there are many wild - flowers . The sol- itude of it all , and the feeling that even in the modern railway ...
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... eye . The tame , cultivated country , the electric - power works , the crowded hotels , the artificial gardens , the ... eyes . Around us , as far as we could see , cutting us off from the world of men , lay a vast canopy of white cloud ...
... eye . The tame , cultivated country , the electric - power works , the crowded hotels , the artificial gardens , the ... eyes . Around us , as far as we could see , cutting us off from the world of men , lay a vast canopy of white cloud ...
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... eye is raised no higher than the horizon , by the tumult and desolation of the waters , the busy , tiresome , laborious ... eyes above the salt wilderness of water , above the la- boring ship , above the swinging mast- heads , and there ...
... eye is raised no higher than the horizon , by the tumult and desolation of the waters , the busy , tiresome , laborious ... eyes above the salt wilderness of water , above the la- boring ship , above the swinging mast- heads , and there ...
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Page 629 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 658 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 658 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 699 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Page 651 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 699 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 698 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.