Memoir of Frank Russell FirthLee and Shepard, 1873 - 143 pages |
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Page 131 - mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more. Far off thou art, but ever nigh; I have thee still, and I rejoice; I prosper, circled with thy voice; I shall not lose thee tho
Page 131 - And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear ? 19 Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their soula to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Page 131 - For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
Page 130 - Thou sayest well: but in life the three acts are the whole drama ; for what shall be a complete drama is determined by him who was once the cause of its composition, and now of its dissolution j but thou art the cause of neither. Depart, then, satisfied ; for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
Page 130 - ... three) ? For that which is conformable to the laws is just for all. Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature who brought thee into it? The same as if a praetor who has employed an actor dismisses him from the stage. — 'But I have not finished the five acts, but only three of them.