Incentives for Life, Personal and PublicFleming H. Revell Company, 1902 - 320 pages |
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... seemed as easy as gossiping , had to " whip himself up " to commence a new book . Great literary power is generally the product of years of self - denial . The philosopher Fichte , when a lad , was addicted to novel - reading . He ...
... seemed as easy as gossiping , had to " whip himself up " to commence a new book . Great literary power is generally the product of years of self - denial . The philosopher Fichte , when a lad , was addicted to novel - reading . He ...
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... seemed a sufficient reason for his not doing it . " No deeper soul tragedy was ever written than this page from one of Coleridge's letters to his friend , Cottle , who had urged him to break away from certain habits which were holding ...
... seemed a sufficient reason for his not doing it . " No deeper soul tragedy was ever written than this page from one of Coleridge's letters to his friend , Cottle , who had urged him to break away from certain habits which were holding ...
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... seemed to hear the voice of his Maker saying , “ I have made thee too weak to get out of the pit , because I made thee strong enough not to .have fallen into it . " This is not the philosophy of hope . The mass of mankind are " in the ...
... seemed to hear the voice of his Maker saying , “ I have made thee too weak to get out of the pit , because I made thee strong enough not to .have fallen into it . " This is not the philosophy of hope . The mass of mankind are " in the ...
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... seemed to reach down from heaven . He " rose and burst the bond of shame , " and like the Great Captain of Salvation led many like himself into the new world of liberty . The bondage of the Will ! there is no slavery like it under ...
... seemed to reach down from heaven . He " rose and burst the bond of shame , " and like the Great Captain of Salvation led many like himself into the new world of liberty . The bondage of the Will ! there is no slavery like it under ...
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... seemed to be dazed . Was he trying to recollect something far back in the years , something of mother , sister , friend ? Was he searching some hitherto unfathomed depth in his own heart , which had been frozen over with many years ...
... seemed to be dazed . Was he trying to recollect something far back in the years , something of mother , sister , friend ? Was he searching some hitherto unfathomed depth in his own heart , which had been frozen over with many years ...
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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.