Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and PossiblePhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 478 strani |
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Stran 425 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Stran 352 - He made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Stran 352 - He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Stran 132 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Stran 30 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled ; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses : they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Stran 412 - I intend to free my servants," said Ida ; " but, surely, I have a right to do so. " Nobody will deny that right; you know it is a fundamental principle, on which our whole social system rests, that a man has a right to do what he will with his servants...
Stran 352 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Stran 428 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Stran 354 - May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Stran 259 - Hence the absolute necessity of being " instant in prayer," ver. 12. 5. God has made of one blood all men that dwell upon the face of the earth. There is in this fact of a common origin, and the possession of a common nature, a sufficient ground for the inculcation of an universal sympathy with all our fellow men. As he is no true Christian who is destitute of a genuine sympathy for his fellow Christians, so he is very far from being...