I was one of those that strove for the mastery, and sometimes grudgedWe remember these things at times," he said gravely, "to make us more aware of the blessedness of being content.

Sickened with the world, he still labored for the world, and died in 1564, over eighty-nine years of age, in the full assurance of eternal blessedness in heaven.

So we may share their blessedness with them; So may the snowdrop time be likewise ours; And Earth smile tearfully the spirit smile

My King! is mine such blessedness to-day?

But all the while I gather a sort of strength from the certainty that there must be limits or negations in my own moral powers and life experience which may screen from me many possibilities of blessedness for our suffering human nature.

They distinguish between soul and body, and regard the former as eternal; evil is not in mere existence, but in life, and their Nirvâna is a blessedness without break or end.

Love receives its blessedness from communication by uses with others, 266.

The doom from which Christianity seeks to save the individual is the doom of moral individualism; the blessedness into which it seeks to lead him is the blessedness of love.

Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, Whose loves in higher love endure; What souls possess themselves so pure, Or is there blessedness like theirs? * * * *