Aspirations of the World: A Chain of OpalsRoberts Brothers, 1878 - 276 pages |
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19th cent American ancient angels animals Apocryphal Old Testament Arabian beautiful believe bless body Buddha Sakya Buddhist Buddhist Scripture called Chinese Christian Cicero Confucius creatures Deity Dhammapada divine earth English Epictetus eternal evil eyes Father forgive friends German give glory gods Grecian happiness hath heart heaven Hebrew Hebrew King Hindu holy honor human ideas immortal Israelite Jesus Christ Jews kingdom Koran Law of Moses light live Lord mankind Mencius mercy mind Mohammed Mohammedan nations nature never Old Testament Persian Plato praise pray prayers prophets pure purity Pythagoras R. W. Emerson religion religious reverence rich Roman Sacred Books Sirach Solomon soul Spirit stars Stoic Sufi Supreme Talmud temple thank thee thine things Thomas à Kempis Thomas Carlyle thou art thou hast Thou shalt thought thyself tion tree true truth universe unto thee Vedas virtue wisdom wise worship Zendavesta Zoroaster
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Page 87 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 76 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose...
Page 65 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 79 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Page 38 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 79 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Page 97 - OH may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 133 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 69 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 181 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.