The Story of a Working Man's Life: With Sketches of Travel in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as Related by HimselfOakley, Mason & Company, 1870 - 462 pages |
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Page 451 - Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold : all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
Page 83 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told.
Page 170 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 342 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 75 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 460 - Christ, in thee! Between the mysteries of death and life Thou standest, loving, guiding, — not explaining; We ask, and thou art silent, — yet we gaze, And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining! No crushing fate, — no stony destiny ! Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in thee!
Page 69 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Page 459 - AcorsrntE. |IFE'S mystery — deep, restless, as the ocean — Hath surged and wailed for ages to and fro; Earth's generations watch its ceaseless motion As in and out its hollow meanings flow. Shivering and yearning by that unknown sea, Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee ! Life's sorrows, with inexorable power, Sweep desolation o'er this mortal plain ; And human loves and hopes fly as the chaff Borne by the whirlwind from the ripened grain.
Page 435 - Formerly the richest countries were those in which nature was most bountiful. Now the richest countries are those in which man is most active.
Page 178 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.