A Snuff-box Full of Trees: & Some Apocryphal EssaysDodd, Mead, 1909 - 91 páginas |
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... tion whether they were first found and named by an Englishman or an American . No worry of nomenclature disturbed Mr. Woodruff , but he knew trees . They had been part and par- cel of his education , and as he lay on I A Snuff-box Full ...
... tion whether they were first found and named by an Englishman or an American . No worry of nomenclature disturbed Mr. Woodruff , but he knew trees . They had been part and par- cel of his education , and as he lay on I A Snuff-box Full ...
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... tion . No passion or power of ours is stronger . Yet , when we think of ourselves , each as one of the millions of inhabitants of this globe ; when we consider what a puny part in its his- tory our little life plays , and how quickly our ...
... tion . No passion or power of ours is stronger . Yet , when we think of ourselves , each as one of the millions of inhabitants of this globe ; when we consider what a puny part in its his- tory our little life plays , and how quickly our ...
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... tion , it has people ; animal and human life . The moon has no life , except as the young and romancing astronomers tell , nor Mars , in spite of fiction . Nor do the astronomers ad- mit that like conditions of atmosphere and ...
... tion , it has people ; animal and human life . The moon has no life , except as the young and romancing astronomers tell , nor Mars , in spite of fiction . Nor do the astronomers ad- mit that like conditions of atmosphere and ...
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... , suicide is by no means generally and officially condemned . The penal code of France contains no legisla- tion on the subject , nor the former codes of Bavaria and Saxony , and doubtless many of the other 54 SUICIDE AND THE BIBLE.
... , suicide is by no means generally and officially condemned . The penal code of France contains no legisla- tion on the subject , nor the former codes of Bavaria and Saxony , and doubtless many of the other 54 SUICIDE AND THE BIBLE.
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... tion have dared to go back to the beginnings of things . They did it " under the Directory " in the last century , when , as may be para- phrased , a woman's clothes , like language , " were given her to conceal her thoughts , " and ...
... tion have dared to go back to the beginnings of things . They did it " under the Directory " in the last century , when , as may be para- phrased , a woman's clothes , like language , " were given her to conceal her thoughts , " and ...
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Página 26 - ALMIGHTY 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 dead...
Página 29 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Página 15 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Página 29 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my firry ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine he'art, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Página 28 - OH ! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red ? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout ? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread? Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod ; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, "Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June,...
Página 30 - And I looked, and there was none to help ; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me ; and my fury, it upheld me. 6. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Página 14 - He is not dead, this friend — not dead, But in the path we mortals tread Got some few, trifling steps ahead And nearer to the end; So that you too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
Página 27 - BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Página 33 - And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Página 15 - Jesus answered and said unto them ; ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.