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... town for seed - corn in the season of spring . One of his companions of the same age , who is still living , used to walk by his side for hours together , when he was ploughing the fields , listening to his lively con- versation , and ...
... town for seed - corn in the season of spring . One of his companions of the same age , who is still living , used to walk by his side for hours together , when he was ploughing the fields , listening to his lively con- versation , and ...
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... towns or villages was an event which we hailed with thankfulness and joy . If we wished to hear a sermon from one of our appointed ministers more than once a month , we had to travel two , four , and even six or eight miles , often in ...
... towns or villages was an event which we hailed with thankfulness and joy . If we wished to hear a sermon from one of our appointed ministers more than once a month , we had to travel two , four , and even six or eight miles , often in ...
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... town at- tend . We have had some conversions , but I hope they are only drops before the shower . I see that I have more need than ever I had before to pray for true humility and evangeli- cal simplicity . Give my kind love to my dear ...
... town at- tend . We have had some conversions , but I hope they are only drops before the shower . I see that I have more need than ever I had before to pray for true humility and evangeli- cal simplicity . Give my kind love to my dear ...
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... town , surrounded by agricultural villages , but in a manufacturing city , of vast extent , teeming with inhabitants , many of the poorer classes being without shoes and stockings ; and not a few of the female servants in respectable ...
... town , surrounded by agricultural villages , but in a manufacturing city , of vast extent , teeming with inhabitants , many of the poorer classes being without shoes and stockings ; and not a few of the female servants in respectable ...
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... towns of Stirling and Ayr . At each of these places one of Mr. New- ton's colleagues resided ; and with them he was ... town being in such a declining state , that it was resolved , if the present attempt to revive it did not succeed ...
... towns of Stirling and Ayr . At each of these places one of Mr. New- ton's colleagues resided ; and with them he was ... town being in such a declining state , that it was resolved , if the present attempt to revive it did not succeed ...
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Page 157 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 366 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death : One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 349 - Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Page i - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 200 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...
Page 151 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 279 - While he walks like Jack the Giantkiller in a coat of darkness, he may do much mischief with little strength. Novelty captivates the superficial and thoughtless ; vehemence delights the discontented and turbulent. He that contradicts acknowledged truth, will always have an audience ; he that vilifies established authority will always find abettors.
Page 279 - Junius is an unusual phenomenon, on which some have gazed with wonder and some with terror; but wonder and terror are transitory passions. He will soon be more closely viewed, or more attentively examined; and what folly has taken for a comet, that from its flaming hair shook pestilence and war, inquiry will find to be only a meteor formed by the vapours...
Page 289 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 174 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.