The Christian Review, Volume 15Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1850 |
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... beautiful and appropriate act , and possibly it might possess this character , were it only of Divine appointment , and significant of nothing more than a desire , on the part of the parent , or sponsor , to consecrate the child to God ...
... beautiful and appropriate act , and possibly it might possess this character , were it only of Divine appointment , and significant of nothing more than a desire , on the part of the parent , or sponsor , to consecrate the child to God ...
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... beautiful illustration of Solomon's saying , " Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . " At six years of age , Thomas lost his father ; but there was left to him that most valuable of ...
... beautiful illustration of Solomon's saying , " Train up a child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . " At six years of age , Thomas lost his father ; but there was left to him that most valuable of ...
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... beautiful in art and letters . Paul therefore , we may be assured , was far from being an indifferent spectator of the scenes which met his view in this celebrated seat of the Muses . He did not wander listlessly through the streets of ...
... beautiful in art and letters . Paul therefore , we may be assured , was far from being an indifferent spectator of the scenes which met his view in this celebrated seat of the Muses . He did not wander listlessly through the streets of ...
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... Beautiful and noble sentiments they might be , which lived in the contemplations and influenced the conduct of the thoughtful few ; but they vainly strove ( if indeed they strove at all ) to make any deep impression on the characters ...
... Beautiful and noble sentiments they might be , which lived in the contemplations and influenced the conduct of the thoughtful few ; but they vainly strove ( if indeed they strove at all ) to make any deep impression on the characters ...
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... schools , or the enfeebling refinements of art . It is bold , idiomatic , and strong , as well as * Christian Review , vol . VI . and vol . VIII . beautiful and finished ; -the style of an earnest - 1850. ] 131 Williams's Miscellanies .
... schools , or the enfeebling refinements of art . It is bold , idiomatic , and strong , as well as * Christian Review , vol . VI . and vol . VIII . beautiful and finished ; -the style of an earnest - 1850. ] 131 Williams's Miscellanies .
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Page 80 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not THEE, marks not the mighty hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 316 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 572 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 120 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 317 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 600 - For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Page 28 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Page 113 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 111 - Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 121 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...