The East: Being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine and SyriaTinsley [Bros.], 1876 |
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Side 155 - Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Side 279 - ICay, properly conviction is not possible till then, inasmuch as all speculation is by nature endless, formless, a vortex amid vortices ; only by a felt indubitable certainty of experience does it find any centre to revolve round and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is it, as a wise man teaches us, that " doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action.
Side 101 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Side 155 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Side 116 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Side 163 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Side 246 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Side 99 - And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Side 262 - His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought : That space the evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remain'd Stupidly good: of enmity disarm'd, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge...
Side 76 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.