Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life, Volumen1C. Scribner, 1860 |
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... Congregation of Philadelphia to be their pastor , the family removed to that city , where their residence continued until July , 1812 , when Dr. A. Alexander entered upon his duties in the Theological Seminary at Princeton . During the ...
... Congregation of Philadelphia to be their pastor , the family removed to that city , where their residence continued until July , 1812 , when Dr. A. Alexander entered upon his duties in the Theological Seminary at Princeton . During the ...
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... congregation , reading theology , and trying to write sermons . I tried my abilities at preaching the other night at the preaching society of the Sem- inary , in presence of most of the ladies of Princeton . It was the first regular ...
... congregation , reading theology , and trying to write sermons . I tried my abilities at preaching the other night at the preaching society of the Sem- inary , in presence of most of the ladies of Princeton . It was the first regular ...
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... congregation of Wall street , N. Y. , against the Presbytery of Elizabethtown , who have refused to put their call into the hands of Dr. McDowell : another is the appeal of - who has been suspended from the ministry of the Gospel . 20th ...
... congregation of Wall street , N. Y. , against the Presbytery of Elizabethtown , who have refused to put their call into the hands of Dr. McDowell : another is the appeal of - who has been suspended from the ministry of the Gospel . 20th ...
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... congregation about twenty - five young men , who profess religion , and are more active in the cause than many ministers . From this you may judge what the people in general are ; and you will not judge too favourably . Among these are ...
... congregation about twenty - five young men , who profess religion , and are more active in the cause than many ministers . From this you may judge what the people in general are ; and you will not judge too favourably . Among these are ...
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... congregation , though small , is increasing , and I have reason to believe that the attachment which the people manifest is real . Mr. Randolph is daily expected at Roanoke . The citizens have determined to send him to Congress . I hope ...
... congregation , though small , is increasing , and I have reason to believe that the attachment which the people manifest is real . Mr. Randolph is daily expected at Roanoke . The citizens have determined to send him to Congress . I hope ...
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Página 60 - And not a voice was idle; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Página 173 - But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us...
Página 32 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 62 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Página 347 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Página 53 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and shall break^ in blessings on your head.
Página 191 - And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Página 7 - ... shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows that, by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the present case, and so it is in every similar case. A letter is written, as a conversation is maintained or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before, but merely by maintaining...
Página 310 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
Página 277 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, then* imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society...