Essays in a Series of LettersHenry G. Bohn, 1846 - 342 pages |
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Page 317 - O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 177 - For that which I do, I allow not; for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 114 - I am called in the name of God to go, and I would go, though I were certain to meet as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the houses.
Page 107 - ... like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Page 65 - He feels this confirmed habit as the grasp of the hand of God, which will never let him go. From this advanced state he looks with firmness and joy on futurity, and says, I carry the...
Page 245 - Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him also, shall the Son of man be ashamed when He cometh in the glory of His Father, with the holy angels.
Page 88 - It is wonderful how even the casualties of life seem to bow to a spirit that will not bow to them, and yield to subserve a design which they may, in their first apparent tendency, threaten to frustrate.
Page 122 - To be tremblingly alive to gentle impressions, and yet to be able to preserve, when the prosecution of a design requires it, an immoveable heart, amidst even the most imperious causes of subduing emotion, is perhaps not an impossible constitution of mind, but it is the utmost and the rarest endowment of humanity.
Page 31 - Minstrel may be as just as it is a fascinating description of such a spirit. But on the greatest number this influence operates feebly ; you will not see the process in children, nor the result in mature persons. The charms of nature are objects...
Page 120 - Gentle shepherd, tell me where ?" Even the assenting convictions and practical compliances, yielded by degrees to this decisive man, may be somewhat undervalued ; as they will appear to him no more than simply coming, and that...