[PDF] New Cyclopaedia Of Prose Illus eBook

Author : Elon Foster
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230165288

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...seeking to impress with the fact of the being of a God, told me that he had been looking everywhere for God, but could not find him; "there was God--No." 1 seized a pair of bellows, and blew a puff at his hand, which was red with cold on a winter's day. He showed signs of displeasure; told me it made his hands cold, while I, looking at the pipe of the bellows, told him I could see nothing; "there was wind--no!" He opened his eyei very wide, stared at me, and panted; a deep crimson suffused his whole face, and a soul, a real soul, shone in his strangely altered countenance, while he triumphantly repeated--"Godlike wind! Godlike wind!" C.Elizabetk. 9083. GOD, The Knowledge of. What must be the knowledge of him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowing, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of him, from whom all beings derive their wisdom; from whom the emmet, the bee, and the stork, receive the pkill to provide, without an error, their food, habitation, and safety; and th prophet and the seraph imbibe their exalted, views of the innumerable, vast, and sublime wonders of creation, and of creating glory and greatness 1 Dr. Dwight. 9034. GOD, Letter to. Recently a letter came to the New York Post-office directed simply lo " God." When opened it was found to be from a little girl, and ran thus: "Dear God, we are very poor. My brother needs a new coat very much. Won't you please to send him one, and then I shall worry no more about It." The letter was put into the hands of certain good ladies, who sent to the town in Massachusetts whence the letter came, and found the case genuine. The little girl's prayer was answered in due...