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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... sure that I should not have been excused had I at all subdued the light and playful tone in which many of the letters are written , or attempted any amend- ment of the abrupt transitions and off - hand phrases so characteristic of the ...
... sure that I should not have been excused had I at all subdued the light and playful tone in which many of the letters are written , or attempted any amend- ment of the abrupt transitions and off - hand phrases so characteristic of the ...
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... sure to accomplish it . So it is in the present case , and so it is in every case similar . A letter is written as a conversation is maintained , or a journey performed , not by preconcerted or premeditated 66 means , a new contrivance ...
... sure to accomplish it . So it is in the present case , and so it is in every case similar . A letter is written as a conversation is maintained , or a journey performed , not by preconcerted or premeditated 66 means , a new contrivance ...
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... sure to err , And scan his work in vain : God is his own interpreter , And he will make it plain . " I know that doctrines in themselves true and important may be made instrumental in doing great evil ; and if there are those concerning ...
... sure to err , And scan his work in vain : God is his own interpreter , And he will make it plain . " I know that doctrines in themselves true and important may be made instrumental in doing great evil ; and if there are those concerning ...
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... sure that my mind reverted to the soirée in Street . I soon go beyond the reach of music , among the moun tain tops of Virginia , except such music as the north wind plays among the recesses of the hills . Look upon the map of Virginia ...
... sure that my mind reverted to the soirée in Street . I soon go beyond the reach of music , among the moun tain tops of Virginia , except such music as the north wind plays among the recesses of the hills . Look upon the map of Virginia ...
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... sure that I am . I have suc- ceeded in getting a reading room established in our little hamlet . We are just beginning ; have subscribed for the American Quar- terly , the North American , Edinburgh , Quarterly , Westminster ...
... sure that I am . I have suc- ceeded in getting a reading room established in our little hamlet . We are just beginning ; have subscribed for the American Quar- terly , the North American , Edinburgh , Quarterly , Westminster ...
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Página 60 - And not a voice was idle : with the din Meanwhile the precipices rang aloud. The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while the 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 - Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 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 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 285 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 54 - ... world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Página 7 - ... or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not hesitate and doubt whether he 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 he sure to accomplish it.
Página 347 - 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 310 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
Página 62 - And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Página 310 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...