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... heart , are like a potsherd covered with silver dross . The north wind driveth away rain , and an angry countenance , a back - biting tongue . As cold water to a thirsty soul , so is good news from a far country . Most men will 20 ...
... heart , are like a potsherd covered with silver dross . The north wind driveth away rain , and an angry countenance , a back - biting tongue . As cold water to a thirsty soul , so is good news from a far country . Most men will 20 ...
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... heart clean : I am pure from my sin ? The hearing ear , and the seeing eye , the Lord hath made . A wise son maketh a glad father , but a foolish man despiseth his mother . A true witness delivereth souls ; but a deceitful witness ...
... heart clean : I am pure from my sin ? The hearing ear , and the seeing eye , the Lord hath made . A wise son maketh a glad father , but a foolish man despiseth his mother . A true witness delivereth souls ; but a deceitful witness ...
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... heart be also . Why even of yourselves , judge ye not what is right ? They them- selves told me the fact . Whatsoever is sold in the shambles , that eat . 5. THE VERB . A verb is a word which describes the state or condition of a noun ...
... heart be also . Why even of yourselves , judge ye not what is right ? They them- selves told me the fact . Whatsoever is sold in the shambles , that eat . 5. THE VERB . A verb is a word which describes the state or condition of a noun ...
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... heart was darkened . But I say unto you , love your enemies ; bless them that curse you ; do good to them that hate you ; and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father who is ...
... heart was darkened . But I say unto you , love your enemies ; bless them that curse you ; do good to them that hate you ; and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you ; that ye may be the children of your Father who is ...
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... heart , as unto Christ . * " We make use of speech only to communicate our thoughts to others ; and consequently our language is always addressed to some one . That those to whom we speak , may know that we are addressing them , we call ...
... heart , as unto Christ . * " We make use of speech only to communicate our thoughts to others ; and consequently our language is always addressed to some one . That those to whom we speak , may know that we are addressing them , we call ...
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adverbs alphabetical Balt beauty behold black crows blessed bosom breath Cæsar cause character Christ Christian close compound declarative compound sentence correlative words dead death decl definite interrogative diphthong doth double compact earth Examples exclamation exclamatory expressed father fear feel give glory grave hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven honor hope human Iago imperfect indefinite indirect interrogative interrogative sentences Jesus land liberty live look loose sentence Lord ment mind moral nations nature never noble noun o'er old oaken bucket participle passion peace perfect loose principles pronouns proposition purest feelings relative pronouns rich ruin scene semi-interrogative short simple single compact soul sound speak spirit tence thee things third form thou thought tion triphthong truth unto verb virtue voice whole wisdom
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Page 190 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 140 - He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Page 144 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 90 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 289 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 74 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 253 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 87 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 238 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 87 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.