The Morning call, by mrs. Ellis, Volume 3; Volume 401850 |
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Popular passages
Page 227 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 333 - ... the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs...
Page 333 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot Ibrth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 334 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 333 - I used to contemplate for hours these mysterious emblems, and muse over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their...
Page 186 - It is beneath the loftiness of his faculties to take his notions of truth from the little hamlet in which he was bred, or from the fashions of thought which prevail in his hour of life : for truth dwells not on the Danube, or the Seine, or the Thames ; she is not this thing to-day, and to-morrow another ; but she is of all places, and all times the same, in every change and in every chance," — as firm as the pillars of the earth, and as beautiful as its fabric. Add to the power of discovering truth,...
Page 227 - And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
Page 429 - Genius (14), in the villa Borghese, of the size of a well-made youth. If the imagination, filled with the single beauties everywhere displayed in nature, and occupied in the contemplation of that beauty which flows from God and leads to God, were to shape, during sleep, a vision of an angel, whose countenance was brightened by the divine effulgence, and whose form was seemingly an effluence from the source of the highest harmony, — in such a form let the reader set before himself this lovely image....
Page 36 - Of how much pure and exalted enjoyment is he ignorant, who never entertained, as angels, the bright emanations of loftier intellects than his own ! By habitual communion with superior spirits, we not only are enabled to think their thoughts, speak their dialects, feel their emotions ; but our own thoughts are refined, our scanty language is enriched, our common feelings are elevated ; and though we may never attain their standard, yet, by keeping company with them, we shall rise above our own ; as...
Page 333 - What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of...