Human Society: Its Providential Structure, Relations, and Offices. Eight Lectures Delivered at the Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.R. Carter & Brothers, 1860 - 307 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 126 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
الصفحة 298 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
الصفحة 96 - Each, where his tasks or pleasures call, They pass, and heed each other not. There is who heeds, who holds them all, In his large love and boundless thought. These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
الصفحة 281 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
الصفحة 306 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
الصفحة 22 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
الصفحة 70 - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the Throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, 40 Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
الصفحة 15 - I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at...
الصفحة 266 - Twas but the ruin of the bad, — The wasting of the wrong and ill; Whate'er of good the old time had Was living still.
الصفحة 17 - Nor does it speak," continues the same author, " one language at Rome and another at Athens, varying from place to place, or time to time ; but it addresses itself to all nations, and to all ages ; deriving its authority from the common Sovereign of the universe, and carrying home its sanctions to every breast, by the inevitable punishment which it inflicts on transgressors.