Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 sider |
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... light of the setting sun , and watch its lingering rays , they would find that the same light , the same softening influence ex- tended as far into the dark recesses of their hovels , as they did into the gorgeous chambers of a palace ...
... light of the setting sun , and watch its lingering rays , they would find that the same light , the same softening influence ex- tended as far into the dark recesses of their hovels , as they did into the gorgeous chambers of a palace ...
Side 14
... light was sent on earth for the rich alone . They shrink too from the storm and tempest , and feel as if they were the icicles of earth hanging superfluous on the branches of the tree of life ! O ! how awful it is to have such thoughts ...
... light was sent on earth for the rich alone . They shrink too from the storm and tempest , and feel as if they were the icicles of earth hanging superfluous on the branches of the tree of life ! O ! how awful it is to have such thoughts ...
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... light thrown around his pathway of life ? Do the flowers smell less fragrantly , or the birds sing less sweetly , in our age , than they do in our youth ? or do they fade away , and die before the fell simoon of time , to bloom , and ...
... light thrown around his pathway of life ? Do the flowers smell less fragrantly , or the birds sing less sweetly , in our age , than they do in our youth ? or do they fade away , and die before the fell simoon of time , to bloom , and ...
Side 17
... light in her dimm'd eyes , as they glanced o'er its hallowed pages . The profligate has ceased to scoff , and- mock religion , when that holy book met his eye . The Athe- ist , scorning alike God and man , trembles at the sight of His ...
... light in her dimm'd eyes , as they glanced o'er its hallowed pages . The profligate has ceased to scoff , and- mock religion , when that holy book met his eye . The Athe- ist , scorning alike God and man , trembles at the sight of His ...
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... light of the gospel , broke in upon their night of gloom , and they listened , they reflected - read , and wondered why men should thus trouble themselves about their souls salvation ! This wonder soon ceased when they were told , not ...
... light of the gospel , broke in upon their night of gloom , and they listened , they reflected - read , and wondered why men should thus trouble themselves about their souls salvation ! This wonder soon ceased when they were told , not ...
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Side 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Side 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Side 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Side 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Side 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Side 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Side 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Side 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Side 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Side 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...