Eastern Proverbs and Emblems: Illustrating Old Truths

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Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1881 - 280 Seiten

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Seite 235 - I have no need of thee : nor, again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Seite 253 - the hour is coming in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice and come forth ; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
Seite 36 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Seite 102 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Seite 121 - Ancient, eternal, and unchang'd, it dies not with the dying frame. Who knows it incorruptible, and everlasting, and unborn, What heeds he whether he may slay, or fall himself in battle slain ? As their old garments men cast off, anon new raiment to assume, So casts the soul its worn-out frame, and takes at once another form. The weapon cannot pierce it through, nor wastes it the consuming fire; The liquid waters melt it not, nor dries it up the parching wind ; Impenetrable and unburn'd ; impermeable...
Seite 153 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Seite 88 - FOB the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind ; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm ; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that turrieth but a day.
Seite 10 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Seite 265 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
Seite 69 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.

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