Poems, on Religious and Historical Subjectsauthor, 1823 - 418 pages |
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Page 56 - So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest ; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 62 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all.
Page 195 - And he (Balaam) took up his parable, and said, Balak the King of Moab, hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Page 150 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh ; lo, he cometh forth to the water ; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses : and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will...
Page 29 - God made ; but that some ef them kept net i ii.-i!- first estate, but left their own habitation, and through pride, aspiring higher, sinned against God, and were by him cast down to hell, we are taught by the apostles Peter and Jude, 2 Pet. ii. 4. Jude vi- to which some additional light is given from Job iv. 18, John viii. 44, and I John ill.
Page 29 - ... elsewhere ; for Moses in this relation gives no account of the fall or indeed, of the creation of angels, yet frequent mention we afterwards find in the holy scriptures of angels, and those both good and bad.
Page 29 - Ihe rest of those angels that fell also ; envying the happiness of man, that he should retain and enjoy that state of innocency and bliss, in which he was made and set, whereas they bad forfeited and lost theirs, contrived how to beguile 'he njan.
Page 415 - I have been edified ; and the more I have read it, the more I have become satisfied, that it will prove useful in schools and in families.— There are some of them introduced into Friends...