| Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the gifts and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of the English Bible. It is his sacred... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It ifl the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good speaks to him forever out of his English Bible." At the restoration... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man are hid beneath ita words. It is the representative of his best moments,...all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good, (•peaks to him forever out of his Protestant Bible. It is his sacred... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 336 pages
...power of all the grin- and trials of a man Is hidden beneath ita words. t is the representative of bis best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to bun for ever out of his English Jlble. .... It Is bis sacred... | |
| 1856 - 504 pages
...traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred... | |
| Horace Bushnell - Church and education - 1853 - 154 pages
...seem to be almost things, rather than mere words. It is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. The memory of the dead passes...is the representative of his best moments, and all there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him forever... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...potent tradition of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred... | |
| Massachusetts Bible Society - Bible - 1853 - 814 pages
...traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of man are hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and good, speaks to him forever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt... | |
| Christian literature for children - 1854 - 780 pages
...traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his SACRED... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 232 pages
...traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative...that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. . . . . It is his... | |
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