Incentives for Life, Personal and PublicFleming H. Revell Company, 1902 - 320 pages |
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... experience . When a midshipman on the old warship Natchez , he fought the grandest battle of his life . Pacing the deck one midnight he was tempted by all the fiends that lodge in the hot blood of youth . With compressed lips , and ...
... experience . When a midshipman on the old warship Natchez , he fought the grandest battle of his life . Pacing the deck one midnight he was tempted by all the fiends that lodge in the hot blood of youth . With compressed lips , and ...
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... experience . One night when he was nineteen years of age , lying awake , he thought , What a wasteful life I am living ! " Upon the instant he exclaimed , " Lord , I will live so no longer . " He knelt by the bedside and made his prayer ...
... experience . One night when he was nineteen years of age , lying awake , he thought , What a wasteful life I am living ! " Upon the instant he exclaimed , " Lord , I will live so no longer . " He knelt by the bedside and made his prayer ...
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... experience . The case is an extreme illustration of what is really a commonplace disorder - volitional pa- ralysis . Of this disease there are many degrees , from the confirmed drunkard who cannot turn from his glass and the tramp who ...
... experience . The case is an extreme illustration of what is really a commonplace disorder - volitional pa- ralysis . Of this disease there are many degrees , from the confirmed drunkard who cannot turn from his glass and the tramp who ...
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... experience . They have lost the sense of motive . Imagination has become feeble , so that they no longer make vivid contrasting pictures of what they once longed to be , and what they are very evidently A DISEASED CONDITION 49.
... experience . They have lost the sense of motive . Imagination has become feeble , so that they no longer make vivid contrasting pictures of what they once longed to be , and what they are very evidently A DISEASED CONDITION 49.
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... experience , “ the beginning of recovery from mental derangement is always a revival of power of the Will . " When a patient endeavors to execute some plan other than that associated with his mania , especially if he be able to hold his ...
... experience , “ the beginning of recovery from mental derangement is always a revival of power of the Will . " When a patient endeavors to execute some plan other than that associated with his mania , especially if he be able to hold his ...
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Page 68 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 172 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 268 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Page 60 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 209 - Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you ; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Page 40 - Brow and head were round, and of massive weight, but the face was flabby and irresolute. The deep eyes, of a light hazel, were as full of sorrow as of inspiration ; confused pain looked mildly from them, as in a kind of mild astonishment. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute ; expressive of weakness under possibility of strength.
Page 64 - Vengeance is mine alone !" So saith the Lord, and with all humbleness His servant echoes back the awful word. MAN. Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit, the quick sense...
Page 157 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 62 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 266 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.