Improvement Era, Volume 4, Issue 1Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association., 1901 |
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... things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man ; and therefore , if a man read little , he had need of a good memory ; if he confer little , he had need of present wit ; and if he write little ...
... things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man ; and therefore , if a man read little , he had need of a good memory ; if he confer little , he had need of present wit ; and if he write little ...
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Page 111 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 355 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 55 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Page 105 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 358 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 361 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 232 - Behold I will send you Elijah, the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 193 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit. To another faith, by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.
Page 461 - We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
Page 225 - Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; /The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.