My object in life, Tema 324Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1833 - 115 páginas |
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... moulds us ; we mould our- selves . For God has left us free ; and it is not God who chooses the good and refuses the evil for us , but we must do it each for ourselves . There are motives to good , there are tempta- tions to evil ...
... moulds us ; we mould our- selves . For God has left us free ; and it is not God who chooses the good and refuses the evil for us , but we must do it each for ourselves . There are motives to good , there are tempta- tions to evil ...
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... moulding our destiny , we are making ourselves . We know well that to resist the evil , to do the good- seeing that God's aid is ever ready for all who seek it is always possible to us ; and if when we say “ I am , ” we wish to say it ...
... moulding our destiny , we are making ourselves . We know well that to resist the evil , to do the good- seeing that God's aid is ever ready for all who seek it is always possible to us ; and if when we say “ I am , ” we wish to say it ...
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... moulds every mental temperament . Let us first notice it as a fact . It is found even in plants . Carry a sensitive plant in a carriage , and its leaves all close , and the whole plant seems to sicken with the motion ; but carry it a ...
... moulds every mental temperament . Let us first notice it as a fact . It is found even in plants . Carry a sensitive plant in a carriage , and its leaves all close , and the whole plant seems to sicken with the motion ; but carry it a ...
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Frederic William Farrar. our parents , and the natures of our parents were moulded by their habits . We do not come into the world alike . Some are born with better natures natures nobler , purer , endowed with more affinities to virtue ...
Frederic William Farrar. our parents , and the natures of our parents were moulded by their habits . We do not come into the world alike . Some are born with better natures natures nobler , purer , endowed with more affinities to virtue ...
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... moulded by many yesterdays , and alas ! one day , one hour , nay , even one minute , may leave its terrible inherit- ance for years . Passively we have been modified by our homes and our childhood . Like the gleam of fire enclosed in ...
... moulded by many yesterdays , and alas ! one day , one hour , nay , even one minute , may leave its terrible inherit- ance for years . Passively we have been modified by our homes and our childhood . Like the gleam of fire enclosed in ...
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Página 43 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Página 65 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 6 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Página 35 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Página 11 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Página 103 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Página 90 - ... both a fit person to do the noblest and godliest deeds, and much better worth than to deject and defile, with such a debasement, and such a pollution as sin is, himself, so highly ransomed and ennobled to a new friendship and filial relation with God. Nor can he fear so much the offence and reproach of others, as he dreads and would blush at the reflection of his own severe and modest eye upon himself, if it should see him doing or imagining that which is sinful, though in the deepest secrecy.
Página 5 - All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead! Then, pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame ; Walk backward, with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! fire THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS.
Página 92 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.