American Unitarian Biography: Memoirs of Individuals who Have Been Distinguished by Their Writings, Character, and Efforts in the Cause of Liberal Christianity, Količina 2

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William Ware
J. Munroe, 1851
 

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Stran 190 - eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth My glory was fresh in me and my
Stran 190 - When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. I put on righteousness and it clothed me ; and justice was my robe and diadem.
Stran 186 - that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be
Stran 425 - His youth was innocent, his riper age Marked with some acts of goodness every day; And, watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage, Faded his late declining years away.
Stran 147 - I must bless God for the place of my nativity, for as my mind unfolded, I became more and more alive to the beautiful scenery which now attracts strangers to our island. My first liberty was used in roaming over the neighboring fields and shores ; and
Stran 148 - No spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach There, in reverential sympathy with the mighty power around me, I became conscious of power within.
Stran 53 - he entered almost tremblingly the houses of the poor, where he was a stranger, to offer his sympathy and friendship. But ' the sheep knew the voice of the shepherd.' The poor recognized by instinct their friend, and from the first moment a relation of singular tenderness and confidence was established between
Stran 163 - another. And as I descended into Grassmere, near sunset, with the placid lake before me, and Wordsworth talking and reciting poetry with a poet's spirit by my side, I felt that the combination of circumstances was such as my highest hopes could never have anticipated.
Stran 130 - still, deep sorrow, the feeling of a mighty void, the last burden which the spirit can cast off. His attachment to life from this moment sensibly declined. In seasons of peculiar sensibility, he wished to be gone. He kept near him the likeness of his departed friend, and spoke to me more than once of the solace which he
Stran 145 - to the roof which sheltered my infancy and to the green graves of my fathers, and take up my abode in the foreign land from which I boast my descent, and which my honest ancestors left in hopes of finding climes more favorable to liberty and to the rights of man.

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