Times and seasonsWilliam Mack, 1883 - 192 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 16
Page 9
... perfect beauty . Young men ! In your case the season of preparation is of the utmost importance . In private enterprise and in public life you are the men of the future . I assume that you have each one chosen his calling . Then ...
... perfect beauty . Young men ! In your case the season of preparation is of the utmost importance . In private enterprise and in public life you are the men of the future . I assume that you have each one chosen his calling . Then ...
Page 10
... perfect . and preserve a good character . If your character is sound , your reputation will take care of itself . " The way , " says SOCRATES , " to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear . " If you want ...
... perfect . and preserve a good character . If your character is sound , your reputation will take care of itself . " The way , " says SOCRATES , " to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear . " If you want ...
Page 11
... perfect in your weakness . Renounce them all . No half- measures are sufficient . The Lord Chamberlain who was sent to examine the vaults underneath the Parliament House at the discovery of the gunpowder plot , returned with the report ...
... perfect in your weakness . Renounce them all . No half- measures are sufficient . The Lord Chamberlain who was sent to examine the vaults underneath the Parliament House at the discovery of the gunpowder plot , returned with the report ...
Page 32
... perfect love which casteth out fear . There may be cases where , at this period , words of counsel and sympathy from tried friends may prove useful ; but generally speaking this is a time in which married persons should be left to them ...
... perfect love which casteth out fear . There may be cases where , at this period , words of counsel and sympathy from tried friends may prove useful ; but generally speaking this is a time in which married persons should be left to them ...
Page 34
... perfect woman , nobly planned To warn , to comfort and command , And yet a spirit still and bright , With something of angelic light . " " " There should be mutual confidence and a mutual concern to avoid offence . RICHTER Somewhere ...
... perfect woman , nobly planned To warn , to comfort and command , And yet a spirit still and bright , With something of angelic light . " " " There should be mutual confidence and a mutual concern to avoid offence . RICHTER Somewhere ...
Common terms and phrases
active adversity affection bear beautiful become begin blessing body bright cares character child CHRIST Christian circumstances comes comfort Consider danger dead dear death duties earth eternal experience eyes faith fall father fear feel friends future give glory gone grave grow hand happiness hear heart heaven honour hope hour human husband land leaves light live look LORD marriage married means meet memory mind mother nature never night observation old age once pain parents pass perfect perhaps persons possession prayer preparation present prosperity prove religion remember rest rich rise says season sleep sometimes sorrow soul spirit strength success teaches tender thee things thou thought true truth turn voice wealth wife wise woman women young youth
Popular passages
Page 175 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 123 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 18 - They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 176 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 99 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 84 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 175 - Lord, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live ; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must give.
Page 88 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Page 37 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Page 153 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...