He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity" (Hab.
He is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity.
God is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity.
Budge, the poet laureate, forpurer English, a writer in the 'Daily Chronicle' says.
She opened a door, and shewed me into a large low room, where a light was burning on a chiffonier, and where the atmosphere was purer and more lifelike than without.
The St. Cecilia before me, her eyes calmly turned heavenwards, could not have had a purerforetaste of the celestial joys than I had that morning.
He was somewhat reassured at breakfast to find no traces of the evening's storm; indeed, the moral atmosphere seemed rather clearer and purerthan common.
He hoped, if he could recover strength sufficient for the search, to find in the suburbs some abode of purer air, and still more moderate expense than his present habitation.
Her father was on that day to visit Mr Baynard at Richmond, whither he had been removed for the benefit of a purer air; and she hoped on his return, to surprize her beloved parent with an unlooked-for treasure.
He attacked the popular religious notions of the Greeks with a view to founding a purerand nobler conception of Deity.
It was these defects which Aristotle set himself to rectify in a purer idealism, shorn of Plato's impurities.
Like Aristippus, they founded morality upon pleasure, but they differ because they developed a purer and nobler conception of pleasure than the Cyrenaics had known.
He knew not whether he were intending to bring a purer offering than men had brought in bygone ages; but his heart grew warm within him.
His innermost heart could not be satisfied with that; in his own estimation he deserved no meed of praise; and where, where was there any evidence of that higher and purer life which he would fain bring about!
For a few short hours only we rough sailors were permitted to enjoy the refined and cultured society of our generous friends, and it is to be hoped we came out the purer for the contact.
Simplicity and elaboration are both compatible with Renaissance design; the former distinguishes the earlier and purer examples of the style, the latter those more recent and more grandiose.
Purer taste on the whole prevailed, if not in the reign of Louis XV.
In this purer spot it is utterly needless to prove the innocence of an exalted being, to whom we are only solicitous to pay that sincere tribute of praise and veneration which we are conscious he deserves.
His real interest and his real sympathies are reserved for the purer and nobler types of womanhood and manhood.
Generally, colour changes as it diminishes, and is not only darker at one spot, but also purer at one spot than elsewhere; although it does not follow that either the darkest or the lightest spot should be the purest.
I saw her several times, so as to stimulate myself to a higher and purer exercise of whatever genius I may have.
The Holy Sisterhood of Mercy have a convent here, where she may find a higher and purer atmosphere than any where else.
They had passed--those pure spirits, from a world which was uncongenial to a fairer world and a purer clime.
Nothing in him was worn-out or enfeebled, but all was pacified, reduced to order, animated with a higher and purer inspiration.
Of both France is proud, and both, as years pass on, are rising into purer and brighter fame.
Thus do we deceive ourselves when the spirit of God has departed from us, even in youth, and construe our dreams of selfishness to be glimmerings of a purer life.
Suzette tossed her head and said that she could never be jealous of a picture, and went her way with a simple faith and toiled; and as she toiled the more, so grew her love the purer and her content the more equal.
Some one, perhaps, who is sinning unsuspected, and, in her envy of another and purer one, gloats in the scandal which does not justly stain me.
When the last fresh passion was over, Suzette, whose face had grownpurer and sadder, roused Ralph Flare to his more legitimate ambition.
Never, however, have I observed the sky of a deeper, darker, and purer blue.
We are recognising more and more the influence of physical elements in the conduct of life, for when the blood flows in a purer current the heart is capable of a higher glow.
In the latter direction the blue is deeper and purer than in either of the former, the proportion of the polarised light of the sky to its total light being also a maximum.
Such were its exciting terms, and once more, perplexed by desire and doubt, I appealed to the purer judgment of my Anna.
My spirit breath'd a purer prayer to thee-- Alluding to his profession of Lutheranism, which he probably embraced while in Steen Sture's army.
But purer spirits walk above, Who worship alway; who are blest With an upspringing might of love That makes all labor, rest.
Thus trembling, to the things of time; And bid the soul, on angel wings, Ascend into a purer clime.
Said not oft those pleading eyes That they longed for purer skies?
Let not the choking cares of earth The precious springs of life o'ergrow; But, ever guarded by Thy love, Still purer may their waters flow.
From earth and earthly toil and strife To deathless aims his soul may rise, Each dawn may wake to better life, With purer eyes.
It would be most unjust not to acknowledge that the chief agent in these two great deliverances was religion; and it may perhaps be doubted whether a purer religion might not have been found a less efficient agent.
The sermon was made up of quaint conceits, such as seventy years earlier might have been admired, but such as moved the scorn of a generation accustomed to the purer eloquence of Sprat, of South, and of Tillotson.
They still held together, though the carpenter was drifting away from his old comrades, into a purer and brighter atmosphere.
For every one of your sons killed, I dare swear a thousand Arabs have fallen, leaving the balance largely in favour of Christianity, and so clearing the ground ready for a purer faith.
She was a daughter of the famous religious reformer, Mr Sen, the founder of the Bramo Samaj faith, which substitutes for the mythology and the seventy thousand deities of the Hindu worship, a purer belief in one God.
But I noticed that Farid Khan did not seem to understand this officer, who spoke a purer and correcter Urdu than did the prisoner himself.
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