The Greyson Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, EsqHenry Rogers Gould and Lincoln, 1857 - 518 páginas |
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Página 220 - If they will not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe though one rose from the dead.
Página 501 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 440 - I really think you would do well to take heed, as to a "light shining in a dark
Página 203 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no, no! I feel The link of nature draw me; flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Página 466 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
Página 234 - For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have life everlasting.
Página 62 - Surely the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat...
Página 36 - Left their unhardened bones to fall asunder there. 6. Innocent Souls ! thus set so early free From sin and sorrow and mortality, Their spotless spirits all-creating Love Received into its universal breast. Yon blue serene above Was their domain ; clouds pillowed them to rest ; The Elements on them like nurses tended, And with their growth ethereal substance blended.
Página 238 - I say, if all this be so, — and I fancy you will find it difficult to prove that it may not be so, — does not the Atonement assume a new aspect ? Is it any longer chargeable with absurdity or caprice ? May it not be justly pronounced a device worthy of divine wisdom and benignity ? Is it not calculated...
Página 315 - ... minister," and stand by with the hope of aiding those processes within us, so many of which transcend all his art, and which, if he be rash, he may much more easily hinder than help; if, in a word, he takes that view of his position to which " old experience does attain," and which, in the language of Dr.