Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 páginas |
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... seem a saint when most I play the devil . " An unmitigated scoundrel in one of Mr. Dickens's books is represented as overtly grudging his old father the scant remnant of his days , and citing holy writ for sanction of his complaint ...
... seem a saint when most I play the devil . " An unmitigated scoundrel in one of Mr. Dickens's books is represented as overtly grudging his old father the scant remnant of his days , and citing holy writ for sanction of his complaint ...
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... seems , is the natural insolence of man , that he almost always disdains to use the good instrument , except when he cannot or dare not use the bad one . Not that nations are without diversities of character , and so of suscep- tibility ...
... seems , is the natural insolence of man , that he almost always disdains to use the good instrument , except when he cannot or dare not use the bad one . Not that nations are without diversities of character , and so of suscep- tibility ...
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... seems Greater than our strength can bear ; Heavy as the weight of dreams Pressing on us everywhere . And we stand from day to day , Like the dwarfs of times gone by , Who , as Northern legends say , On their shoulders held the sky ...
... seems Greater than our strength can bear ; Heavy as the weight of dreams Pressing on us everywhere . And we stand from day to day , Like the dwarfs of times gone by , Who , as Northern legends say , On their shoulders held the sky ...
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... seems to urge mankind , as by a kind of necessity , to seek pleasure in obedience , and to feel a desire to depose , as it were , their free agency and consequent responsibility in other hands ; as if thereby a burden was laid down ...
... seems to urge mankind , as by a kind of necessity , to seek pleasure in obedience , and to feel a desire to depose , as it were , their free agency and consequent responsibility in other hands ; as if thereby a burden was laid down ...
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... seems to relieve him from the necessity of further resolution . " He has set in motion a machine which will of itself wind off results and consequences for him with- out more ado on his own part ; and this is an order of release from ...
... seems to relieve him from the necessity of further resolution . " He has set in motion a machine which will of itself wind off results and consequences for him with- out more ado on his own part ; and this is an order of release from ...
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Página 187 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Página 2 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Página 5 - Grey. But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Página 249 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Página 338 - Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward : but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Página 338 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Página 218 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Página 341 - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 202 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.