The Poetical Works of John Struthers: With Autobiography ...A. Fullarton and Company, 1850 |
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Page 41 - ... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 111 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 115 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 148 - It is time to recover it out of the tyrant's hands, and to restore it to the kingdom of God, who is the father of it.
Page 278 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 149 - ... one better; but he who can do that but ill, will do this much worse. The same fertility of Invention, the same wisdom of Disposition; the same Judgment in...
Page 148 - Amongst all holy and consecrated things, which the devil ever stole and alienated from the service of the Deity, as altars, temples, sacrifices, prayers, and the like, there is none that he so universally and so long usurpt, as poetry.
Page 107 - I know them ; they are my son's, my own dear son's. It is the Lord : good is the will of the Lord, who cannot wrong me nor mine, but has made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days.
Page 148 - Scripture affords and proffers, as it were, to poesy ; in the wise managing and illustrating whereof the glory of God Almighty might be joined with the singular utility and noblest delight of mankind...
Page 40 - He that stealeth a man, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.