Five occasional lectures, delivered in Montreal |
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Side 17
... Heaven ; and come and follow me . " He embraced the ascetic life , retired into a desert in Egypt , and died there in the year 356 . St. Anthony , however , did not , like St. Paul the Hermit , pass his life in solitude . A great number ...
... Heaven ; and come and follow me . " He embraced the ascetic life , retired into a desert in Egypt , and died there in the year 356 . St. Anthony , however , did not , like St. Paul the Hermit , pass his life in solitude . A great number ...
Side 47
... heaven and earth . " ( And having enumerated a long list , he proceeded to ask :) And are not the business relations of the community contaminated more and more with speculation and knavery ? In mercantile honour and hones- ty , in the ...
... heaven and earth . " ( And having enumerated a long list , he proceeded to ask :) And are not the business relations of the community contaminated more and more with speculation and knavery ? In mercantile honour and hones- ty , in the ...
Side 59
... heavens at the rising and setting of the Sun , which is wholly made up of those different stains of light , that ... Heavenly Father . " - Which , the relative pronoun , always refers , grammatically , to the immediately preceding ...
... heavens at the rising and setting of the Sun , which is wholly made up of those different stains of light , that ... Heavenly Father . " - Which , the relative pronoun , always refers , grammatically , to the immediately preceding ...
Side 60
... heavenly Father . " Metaphors , similies , and the like figures of speech are often of great force and beauty ; but they must be well sustained and appo ~ site , or they only create confusion , and appear ridiculous . For instance ...
... heavenly Father . " Metaphors , similies , and the like figures of speech are often of great force and beauty ; but they must be well sustained and appo ~ site , or they only create confusion , and appear ridiculous . For instance ...
Side 75
... heaven . " " When , o'er the vale of BALBEC winging , Slowly she sees a child at play , Among the rosy wild flowers singing , As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing , with eager hands and eyes , The beautiful blue damsel - flies , That ...
... heaven . " " When , o'er the vale of BALBEC winging , Slowly she sees a child at play , Among the rosy wild flowers singing , As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing , with eager hands and eyes , The beautiful blue damsel - flies , That ...
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Side 22 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Side 94 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Side 109 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Side 7 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Side 68 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Side 81 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some...
Side 65 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Side 97 - Oh! change — oh! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment there so low, So agonized, and now Beyond the stars! Oh! change, stupendous change! There lies the soulless clod; The sun eternal breaks, The new immortal wakes — Wakes with his God.
Side 208 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Side 83 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.