Floral Biography, Or, Chapters on FlowersBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 321 páginas |
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... grace enabled him to maintain against temptations , too frequently successful , to compromise his Christian simplicity of walk and conversation , he appeared one day to his anxious wife , radiant with joy and holy exultation . ' Oh ...
... grace enabled him to maintain against temptations , too frequently successful , to compromise his Christian simplicity of walk and conversation , he appeared one day to his anxious wife , radiant with joy and holy exultation . ' Oh ...
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... grace that was preparing her for glory . She I watched , for twelve months , her progress towards heaven ; and greatly did she desire to die , where alone she had truly begun to live ; but duty called her elsewhere , to the fulfilment ...
... grace that was preparing her for glory . She I watched , for twelve months , her progress towards heaven ; and greatly did she desire to die , where alone she had truly begun to live ; but duty called her elsewhere , to the fulfilment ...
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... grace of God subsequently taught me to reject as decided- ly sinful . I was taken to church every Sunday , even before I could read the bible , and when sufficiently advanced in learning to do so , I was told to receive every word that ...
... grace of God subsequently taught me to reject as decided- ly sinful . I was taken to church every Sunday , even before I could read the bible , and when sufficiently advanced in learning to do so , I was told to receive every word that ...
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... grace would pause at . and I have a criterion whereby to judge when it is through the help of my God that I overleap any wall . Accomplishing it in my own strength , and for my own gratification , I am sure to carry off either broken ...
... grace would pause at . and I have a criterion whereby to judge when it is through the help of my God that I overleap any wall . Accomplishing it in my own strength , and for my own gratification , I am sure to carry off either broken ...
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... grace , I withheld not my hand ; I know not whether pros- pered , this or that : but I believe they were alike good . Only the former sprung not up , until the latter was likewise cast in . Two things made against the apparent reality ...
... grace , I withheld not my hand ; I know not whether pros- pered , this or that : but I believe they were alike good . Only the former sprung not up , until the latter was likewise cast in . Two things made against the apparent reality ...
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afflicted appeared babe beautiful behold believe beloved beneath blessed blood blossom bosom breath bright buds CHAPTER character cheerful child Christian Christmas rose church countenance crooked fingers dark dear death delicate delight demnation divine divine grace Doghery dumb boy earth Eben-ezer endeared eternal exquisite faith father feeling felt flower garden gaze glorious glory gospel grace Guernsey Lily hand Hannah More's happy heart heart's-ease heaven holy hope Ireland Irish Jack Jessamine Jesus Christ kingdom of heaven knew Lauristinus leaves light look Lord Marie mercy mind never O'Neil parterre passed perfect petals plant poor popery pray prayer precious privilege protestantism racter reader rejoice rich rose-trees Satan scene scripture season shamrock shining shrub smile sorrow soul spirit suffering sure sweet sympathy tears tender things thought tint tion told trees tribulation unto varigated word
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Página 62 - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on His love with sweetest song; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His Name. 4 Blessings abound where'er He reigns; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains ; The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest.
Página 67 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 219 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While thy love is left to me ; Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with thee.
Página 223 - Ye woodlands all, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves ! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds, sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the night His praise.
Página 79 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Página 159 - God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Página 49 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Página 316 - God ; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ; that they might be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Página 319 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 133 - Godliness hath the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come.