Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an AutobiographyDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 363 páginas |
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... stand by many a shower of warm drops upon my head and hands — by telling me old stories of the Re- volutionary war , in which his father had served from Bunker Hill to Yorktown , and how he when a boy went duck shooting among the celery ...
... stand by many a shower of warm drops upon my head and hands — by telling me old stories of the Re- volutionary war , in which his father had served from Bunker Hill to Yorktown , and how he when a boy went duck shooting among the celery ...
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... stand , statues of memorable persons , and others from which fountains were to throw their rainbow shafts high in air . Here the Male Academy was placed , and there the Female Seminary , and yonder was the Univer sity . The churches ...
... stand , statues of memorable persons , and others from which fountains were to throw their rainbow shafts high in air . Here the Male Academy was placed , and there the Female Seminary , and yonder was the Univer sity . The churches ...
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... stand idly about with folded arms , regaling themselves with fumes of tobacco , inhaled from a corncob or sweet potato pipe . The exercises of the day were usually varied by political speeches , a sheriff's sale , a half dozen free ...
... stand idly about with folded arms , regaling themselves with fumes of tobacco , inhaled from a corncob or sweet potato pipe . The exercises of the day were usually varied by political speeches , a sheriff's sale , a half dozen free ...
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... standing behind the counter , counting eggs , weighing butter , or summing up accounts , the rap- turous world to which books had introduced me , with its fadeless lights and sounding oracles , its profound truths and majestic ideals ...
... standing behind the counter , counting eggs , weighing butter , or summing up accounts , the rap- turous world to which books had introduced me , with its fadeless lights and sounding oracles , its profound truths and majestic ideals ...
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... stand as the type of the pioneer preachers of the West - men whose worth , self - sacrifices , and labors , have never had their meed of recognition . Perhaps my sketch may be rendered more complete by the following story ; at all ...
... stand as the type of the pioneer preachers of the West - men whose worth , self - sacrifices , and labors , have never had their meed of recognition . Perhaps my sketch may be rendered more complete by the following story ; at all ...
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Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography William Henry Milburn Vista completa - 1859 |
Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography William Henry Milburn Vista completa - 1860 |
Ten Years of Preacher-life: Chapters from an Autobiography William Henry Milburn Vista completa - 1859 |
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Página 328 - WHO can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 214 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.
Página 11 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 214 - No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Página 12 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Página 363 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 299 - 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; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Página 117 - As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Página 80 - God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build • them up and to give them "an inheritance among all them which are sanctified ;" and in the midst of a profound silence the bishop reads out the appointments.
Página 329 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
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