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... need to be re- pulsed either with offensive boasting or the ruthless hand of force ; rather do they need the sympathy which feels and the kindness which allures . Encourage- ment to them is life . They may be said 24 TIMIDITY .
... need to be re- pulsed either with offensive boasting or the ruthless hand of force ; rather do they need the sympathy which feels and the kindness which allures . Encourage- ment to them is life . They may be said 24 TIMIDITY .
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... force to its expression . It is severe , but just , reasoned Selina ; my hopes had led me to the threshold of a false security ; faithfulness required that I should see my danger , and the eleva- tion of my mind in anticipation of rest ...
... force to its expression . It is severe , but just , reasoned Selina ; my hopes had led me to the threshold of a false security ; faithfulness required that I should see my danger , and the eleva- tion of my mind in anticipation of rest ...
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... force out that perfume , whose durability well compensates the difficulty of production . " YOUTH is the season of expectation . It is in youth that the feelings are warm and the fancy fresh , and that there has been no blight to chill ...
... force out that perfume , whose durability well compensates the difficulty of production . " YOUTH is the season of expectation . It is in youth that the feelings are warm and the fancy fresh , and that there has been no blight to chill ...
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... force of God's requirements ; but one was wrought up to a high pitch of feeling , while the other , whose emotions were less powerful , heard with genuine faith . They returned to the world — and to Lucy , those feelings were as though ...
... force of God's requirements ; but one was wrought up to a high pitch of feeling , while the other , whose emotions were less powerful , heard with genuine faith . They returned to the world — and to Lucy , those feelings were as though ...
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mrs. Parker. their force long after they were uttered in the pulpit ; and the inference she deduced was manifested in a hearty sur- render of her life to God . The operative strength of principle , and not the contemplative strength of ...
mrs. Parker. their force long after they were uttered in the pulpit ; and the inference she deduced was manifested in a hearty sur- render of her life to God . The operative strength of principle , and not the contemplative strength of ...
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Side 92 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; * whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states,3 Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Side 131 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Side 170 - For the love of money is the root of all evil : which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Side 181 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there.
Side 66 - What though in lonely grief I sigh For friends beloved, no longer nigh, Submissive still would I reply,
Side 25 - ... to be both impudent and bashful. We have frequent instances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education; who, though they are not able to meet a man's eyes, or pronounce a sentence without confusion, can voluntarily commit the greatest villanies, or most indecent actions.
Side 93 - God, the One enthroned from long ago, will hear, and will humiliate them Selah because they do not change and do not «fear God. 20 He3 acts violently against those at peace with him; he violates his covenant. 21 His buttery words are smooth,b but war is in his heart.
Side 193 - WHEN, my Saviour, shall I be Perfectly resigned to thee ? Poor and low in my own eyes, Only in thy wisdom wise ! 2 Only thee content to know, Ignorant of all below; Only guided by thy light ; Only mighty in thy might ! 3 So I may thy Spirit know, Let him as he listeth blow : Let the manner be unknown, So I may with thee be one.
Side 63 - ... may descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon it, and it will not fall.
Side 20 - THE bird in his cage pursued me into my room. I sat down close by my table, and, leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery: but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it...