Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Band 3

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R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834
 

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Seite 193 - ... false idols of every mind ; carry faith to the doubting, hope to the fearful, strength to the weak, light to the mourner ; and more and more increase the pure in heart who see their God. Commit thy word, O Lord, to the lips of faithful men, or the free winds of thine invisible Providence ; that soon the knowledge of thee may cover the earth, as the waters cover the channels of .the deep. And so let thy kingdom come, through Jesus Christ thy Son.
Seite 424 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Seite 198 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Seite 296 - O God, Thou art my' God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is ; To see Thy power and Thy glory, So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
Seite 360 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th...
Seite 211 - O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 133 - When I settled in this country thirteen years ago, I found the poor in many of the villages sunk in a deplorable state of ignorance and vice. There were, I think, no Sunday schools in the whole district, except one in my own parish, which had been established by our respectable rector, and another in the adjoining parish of Churchill. This drew me to the more neglected villages, whose distance made it very laborious.
Seite 486 - May I die the death of the righteous, and may my last end be like his...
Seite 483 - I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout. I never shall forget the tremulous earnestness with which he pronounced the awful petition in the Litany : " In the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, good LORD deliver us.
Seite 153 - tarry thou the Lord's leisure :" be strong, and " he shall comfort thy heart ;" and put thou thy trust in the Lord ! 6.

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