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... feel uncertain of our former convictions . When we see the good and pious defeated in all their plans , always frustrated , and always suffering ; the vicious triumphing in prosperity ; the unprin- cipled elevated to power ; the infidel ...
... feel uncertain of our former convictions . When we see the good and pious defeated in all their plans , always frustrated , and always suffering ; the vicious triumphing in prosperity ; the unprin- cipled elevated to power ; the infidel ...
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... feels the insufficiency of its powers , and finds astonished , how narrow is its boasted capacity ! We find that to understand his excellence by a single act of comprehension , we must possess a mind equal to his own . I say then again ...
... feels the insufficiency of its powers , and finds astonished , how narrow is its boasted capacity ! We find that to understand his excellence by a single act of comprehension , we must possess a mind equal to his own . I say then again ...
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... feel something of his own self - sufficiency , when we choose the pursuits we mean to follow , mark out what we imagine to be the road to happiness , and , thus prepared , enter on the wide and busy scene of active life . From this ...
... feel something of his own self - sufficiency , when we choose the pursuits we mean to follow , mark out what we imagine to be the road to happiness , and , thus prepared , enter on the wide and busy scene of active life . From this ...
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... feeling the very uncertainty on which that situa- tion is granted . I cannot leave this division of my subject , with- out indulging some further speculations , on the wisdom of these apparently uncertain arrange- ments of Providence ...
... feeling the very uncertainty on which that situa- tion is granted . I cannot leave this division of my subject , with- out indulging some further speculations , on the wisdom of these apparently uncertain arrange- ments of Providence ...
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... feels a stain as it would a wound . In- fluenced by the contemplation of imaginary charac- ters , he endeavours to form himself after the model of heroes he has admired in history , or characters that he has contemplated in the lustre ...
... feels a stain as it would a wound . In- fluenced by the contemplation of imaginary charac- ters , he endeavours to form himself after the model of heroes he has admired in history , or characters that he has contemplated in the lustre ...
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Página 22 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Página 271 - Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Página 174 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Página 343 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Página 55 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God...
Página 64 - Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Página 249 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 94 - Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Página 342 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Página 183 - There is no moral formula more frequently cited, and with more deserved admiration, than that maxim of doing to others as we would have them do to us : and, as Paley observes, no one probably ever was in practice led astray by it.