Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 páginas |
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... soul , the man himself who imagines that there are divisions of light , as there are classes among men . Up from the deep caverns of poverty , of wrong , and of oppression , come forth dark and sombre thoughts ; the world looks cold and ...
... soul , the man himself who imagines that there are divisions of light , as there are classes among men . Up from the deep caverns of poverty , of wrong , and of oppression , come forth dark and sombre thoughts ; the world looks cold and ...
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... souls salvation ! This wonder soon ceased when they were told , not man , but God called them to repentance ! -Then as they gazed upon the placid waters , and heard the murmuring of the night breeze through the distant woods , and the ...
... souls salvation ! This wonder soon ceased when they were told , not man , but God called them to repentance ! -Then as they gazed upon the placid waters , and heard the murmuring of the night breeze through the distant woods , and the ...
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... souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high , Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? Salvation ! oh , Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim , Till each remotest nation Has learn'd Messiah's name ! Waft , waft , ye winds , his ...
... souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high , Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? Salvation ! oh , Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim , Till each remotest nation Has learn'd Messiah's name ! Waft , waft , ye winds , his ...
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... soul and the body , and whose smile sheds a radiant light upon the dark and gloomy chamber , the chamber , as it were , of death ? It is the agent of Heaven , the instrument of divine Providence , whose power no man should ever ques ...
... soul and the body , and whose smile sheds a radiant light upon the dark and gloomy chamber , the chamber , as it were , of death ? It is the agent of Heaven , the instrument of divine Providence , whose power no man should ever ques ...
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... soul , make the young trem- ble and shun , forever after , all willow trees . They are fatal to the young and innocent . Their very branches breathe a note of love , and whisper soft nonsense to a maiden's ear . Still the object of ...
... soul , make the young trem- ble and shun , forever after , all willow trees . They are fatal to the young and innocent . Their very branches breathe a note of love , and whisper soft nonsense to a maiden's ear . Still the object of ...
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Página 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Página 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Página 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Página 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Página 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Página 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Página 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Página 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...