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" This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far... "
Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 76
1835
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Noble Living: A Series of Studies as to the Development of the Deeper Life ...

Charles Sumner Nickerson - 1896 - 304 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision ... of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God.' " Is it still urged that these experiences are rare ? Not so rare. It...
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American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine...; an ardor of soul that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things, I gave an account to my father of some things...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up, as...
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American Prose: Selections

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up, as...
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Colonial Prose and Poetry ...: Revolutionary literature [to 1775

William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 358 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...an ardor of soul, that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things, I gave an account to my father of some things...
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Jonathan Edwards, by Samuel Miller

Jared Sparks - 1902 - 274 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle...
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Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards - 1904 - 232 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ and wrapped and swallowed up in God." His diary is the record of a soul straining in its flight. He watches...
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American Philosophy: The Early Schools

Woodbridge Riley - 1907 - 630 pages
...conjoined and blended with the intuitive. Along with this new sense, — a kind of vision or fixed ideas and imaginations of being alone in the mountains...or some solitary wilderness far from all mankind, — there came a thought of being wrapt up to God in heaven, being, as it 1W. R. Inge, Christian Mysticism,...
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Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800

William B. Cairns - 1909 - 520 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...kindle up, as it were, a sweet burning in my heart; an ardour of soul, that I know not how to express. Not long after I first began to experience these things,...
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Looking Forward Into the Past

Edward Payson Tenney - 1910 - 252 pages
...four between the chimney and the front wall — where he had visions or fixed ideas and imagination of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness...conversing with Christ and wrapt and swallowed up in God, — then it is indeed not unwise wandering if on my own part I seek literally to walk with God in the...
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