A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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It was his earnest work and daily toil,

With lying tongue, to make the noble seem

Mean as himself.

Pollok.

ERROR.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.—Psalm xix. 12.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord.—Isaiah, xxxii. 6.

Beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.—II. Peter, iii. 17.

A good that never satisfies the mind,