The Life of Hannah More: With Notices of Her Sisters ...Carey & Hart, 1838 - 422 Seiten |
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... perhaps , do violence to our narrative to enter on the matter here ; and the reader is therefore referred for a more general discussion of the subject to the con- cluding chapter . During the trying progress of the Blagdon controversy ...
... perhaps , do violence to our narrative to enter on the matter here ; and the reader is therefore referred for a more general discussion of the subject to the con- cluding chapter . During the trying progress of the Blagdon controversy ...
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... perhaps , attracted the public esteem . An animal activity had partly stimulated your exertions . The love of reputation begins to mix itself with your better motives , You do not , it is presumed , act entirely , or chiefly , for human ...
... perhaps , attracted the public esteem . An animal activity had partly stimulated your exertions . The love of reputation begins to mix itself with your better motives , You do not , it is presumed , act entirely , or chiefly , for human ...
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... perhaps , the most important single document in existence for the illustration of Mrs. More's character and opinions , as well as one of the most eloquent productions of her pen . I am here , by the great kindness of her friend ...
... perhaps , the most important single document in existence for the illustration of Mrs. More's character and opinions , as well as one of the most eloquent productions of her pen . I am here , by the great kindness of her friend ...
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... perhaps , near half a score clergymen , who , I presume , no more thought they were guilty of disaffection than I myself did . I went , of course , to church as usual , except that the extreme nearness of this chapel drew me a few ...
... perhaps , near half a score clergymen , who , I presume , no more thought they were guilty of disaffection than I myself did . I went , of course , to church as usual , except that the extreme nearness of this chapel drew me a few ...
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... perhaps , from being incidental and frequent than a specific and elaborate declaration would have been . For it is not so much from an insulated passage , as from the general tenor and spirit of his writings , that an author's ...
... perhaps , from being incidental and frequent than a specific and elaborate declaration would have been . For it is not so much from an insulated passage , as from the general tenor and spirit of his writings , that an author's ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accused admiration Alexander Johnston Anti-Jacobin Review appeared attachment baptism Barley Wood Bere Bere's Bible Bishop Beadon Bishop of Exeter Blagdon controversy blessing Bristol called Calvinism Calvinists Ceylon character charge charity Charles Forster Cheap Repository Cheddar Christian Church of England circumstances Clifton conduct Congresbury conversation Cowslip Green curate dear death dissent distress divine doctrine duty edition effect faith feel friends grace Gwatkin Hannah More's heart holy honour human instruction Jacobin labours lady less letter to Dr living Lord Lordship Martha ment Methodists mind minister Moral Sketches Nailsea ness never object observed occasion opinion parish peace perhaps persons pious poor Practical Piety prayer principles racter reader rector regeneration religion religious says Scripture sentiments servants Shipham Sir Alexander sister Society spirit suffering Sunday things thought tion tracts truth views Whalley Wilberforce Wrington writings young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 197 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Seite 226 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Seite 202 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Seite 223 - Be ye sure that the Lord he is God : it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Seite 66 - To whom thus half abash'd Adam replied : Neither her outside form'd so fair, nor aught In procreation common to all kinds, Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Seite 114 - For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Seite 69 - ... an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance ; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him ; one who can reason, and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse and discriminate ; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his cares, sooth his sorrows, purify his joys, strengthen his principles, and educate his children.
Seite 49 - The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Full soon Among them he arrived ; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in their souls infixed Plagues : they, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage ; down their idle weapons dropt: O'er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he rode Of thrones and mighty seraphim prostrate, That wished the mountains now might be again Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.
Seite 214 - A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Seite 100 - 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.