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... early Church, that the contrast may make it manifest what kind of church those have who plume themselves on the very title, as sufficient to outweigh, or rather overwhelm us. It ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_5_the_ancient_form.htm
... Paul can quote his own experience on the point. For many years he thought he might plume himself even more than other men on his pedigree and his personal rower. He had lived ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/edgar/pride_of_birth_and_breeding.htm
... , Like numerous wings around him, as he flies: Or, rather, as unequal plumes, they shape His ample pinions, swift as darted flame, To gain his goal, ...
https://biblehub.com/library/young/youngs_night_thoughts/the_complaint_or_night_thoughts.htm
... , that strange and lovely parasite, the Rhipsalis cassytha, which you mistake first for a plume of green sea-weed, or a tress of Mermaid's hair which has got up there by mischance ...
https://biblehub.com/library/kingsley/at_last/chapter_vii_the_high_woods.htm
... with large or extended wings. There is no doubt that by wings, feathers, and plumes, he means the regions and peoples over which Nebuchadnezzar presided; for we know that the ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/commentary_on_ezekiel_volume_2/ezekiel_17_3-4.htm
... who had knowledge became a privileged class, and received honour and respect; and naturally they plumed themselves on it, as men plume themselves on titles today. "Let not the wise ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/beecher/aims_of_life.htm
... on their exit, souls are bid unrobe, Toss fortune back her tinsel, and her plume, And drop this mask of flesh behind the scene. With me, that time is ...
https://biblehub.com/library/young/youngs_night_thoughts/to_the_honourable_mr_yorke.htm
... middle; gray last year's leaves hanging down; and feathering round the top, a circular plume of pale green leaves, like those of a coconut. But these are not cocos. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/kingsley/at_last/chapter_v_a_letter_from.htm
... of God, but also by the consent of the early Church, however much they may plume themselves on the pretence that they have this consent. But let us now come to particulars ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_19_of_the_five.htm
... actors of the last year's scene; Their port so proud, their buskin, and their plume? How many sleep, who kept the world awake With lustre, and with noise! ...
https://biblehub.com/library/young/youngs_night_thoughts/humbly_inscribed_to_his_grace.htm
... man when he went away look far differently from what he did when he entered. His plumes had been trailed in the dust. As he walks home there is no more flippancy and ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/spurgeon/the_wicked_man's_life_funeral_and_epitaph.htm
... man when he went away look far differently from what he did when he entered. His plumes had been trailed in the dust. As he walks home there is no more flippancy and ...
https://biblehub.com/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/the_wicked_mans_life_funeral.htm
... a sun of wondrous brilliancy. His horse, an iron grey, was graced with a plume of gold-bespangled feathers. Before him rode the faithful Le Crapeau, bearing his banner, on ...
https://biblehub.com/library/kingston/the_seven_champions_of_christendom/chapter_twelve_the_tournament_at.htm
... ]- contends with much courage and earnestness against the proud and arrogant, and such as plume themselves on their own works, in order that he may commend the grace of God. ...
https://biblehub.com/library/augustine/anti-pelagian_writings/chapter_12_paul_whence_so_called.htm
... of martyrdom as though some strange thing had happened to you. Neither pity yourselves, nor plume yourselves on what you have done or borne. Do not think of yourselves at all, ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/cox/the_dutiful_servant.htm
... has kept the whole law with but one solitary exception. Dress yourself out in your best plumes, put on your most courtly array; deck yourself in your most unspotted garments; suppose ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/cooper/the_defectiveness_of_human_righteousness.htm
... heroes, but very soon, when the armour gets a little battered, and the fine plume on their helmet a little stained, they turn back in the day of battle. Some ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/turning_back_in_the_day_of_battle.htm
... thick leather, or brass, fitted to the head, and was usually crowned with a plume, or crest, as an ornament, Its use was to guard the head from a ...
https://biblehub.com/library/barnes/barnes_new_testament_notes/ephesians_-_chapter_6_-_17.htm
... with the longbow. They would take the arrow of polished wood and feather it with the plume of a bird, and then it would fly from the bowstring of plaited silk. The ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/talmage/effective_soul_archery.htm
... a chain of pearls or a knot of diamonds. 5. Our birth? He who plumes himself upon this is proud of the blessings of others, not his own. II. ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/summerfield/the_proud_abased_and_the_humble_exalted.htm
... riches are in truth their own; like the jackdaw in the fable, they wear borrowed plumes. 2. Acknowledged to the great Giver with becoming gratitude. Gratitude is, as it ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/spurgeon/things_present.htm
... as if the great globe were a bird coming to its moulting and shedding all its old plumes. Or, if snow be likened to flowers, then the raindrops in the upper air ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/beecher/suggestions_of_the_snow.htm
... object was to repress the superciliousness of some who, laying aside all regard to godliness, plumed themselves on mere ceremonies. In like manner, we may, in the present day, ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_16_paedobaptism_its_accordance.htm
... , that lit our aimless gloom, Men showed their own white feather as proudly as a plume. Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung; The world ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chesterton/the_man_who_was_thursday/title_page.htm
... we lifted the pole and the bee. A little while was spent in drying herself and pluming her wings, and then our worker made a straight line for the hive, and doubtless ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/spurgeon/helping_the_weak.htm
