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Amid your cheerful families , Blest with a prosperous state , Remember , happy Englishmen , Poor Ireland desolate ! So may the Judge of all the earth Your land with favour view : God grant the rod that scourges us , May never fall on ...
Amid your cheerful families , Blest with a prosperous state , Remember , happy Englishmen , Poor Ireland desolate ! So may the Judge of all the earth Your land with favour view : God grant the rod that scourges us , May never fall on ...
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... remember the name of the Lord our God . ” Whilst there is so much in the character of David worthy of admiration , we must recollect that he is not presented to us as a perfect character ; for we find that he fell under the severe and ...
... remember the name of the Lord our God . ” Whilst there is so much in the character of David worthy of admiration , we must recollect that he is not presented to us as a perfect character ; for we find that he fell under the severe and ...
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... remember her Creator : she truly feared him , and dreaded nothing so much as to offend him , or grieve his good Spirit . Young as she was , she loved prayer , and attended public worship with delight . She was seized with the hooping ...
... remember her Creator : she truly feared him , and dreaded nothing so much as to offend him , or grieve his good Spirit . Young as she was , she loved prayer , and attended public worship with delight . She was seized with the hooping ...
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... , and so gentle , and so affectionate , even when she reproved , ( I will tell you of her reproving me once , ) that we could not help loving her ; and though I do not remember ever seeing her laugh , I dare say she EARLY DAYS . 29.
... , and so gentle , and so affectionate , even when she reproved , ( I will tell you of her reproving me once , ) that we could not help loving her ; and though I do not remember ever seeing her laugh , I dare say she EARLY DAYS . 29.
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remember ever seeing her laugh , I dare say she would have done so if she had not been so ill . Though she did not laugh , she would smile very , very sweetly , and always looked pleased when those around her were happy . Another reason ...
remember ever seeing her laugh , I dare say she would have done so if she had not been so ill . Though she did not laugh , she would smile very , very sweetly , and always looked pleased when those around her were happy . Another reason ...
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Page 209 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 137 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 10 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever...
Page 89 - Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course; the wheels remained motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation; when hands, wheels, weights, with one voice protested their innocence.
Page 91 - The dial could scarcely keep its countenance during this harangue ; but resuming its gravity, thus replied : " Dear Mr. Pendulum, I am really astonished that such a useful, industrious person as yourself should have been overcome by this sudden action.
Page 137 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Page 209 - And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
Page 92 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 201 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 141 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!