The Life of Hannah More: With Notices of Her Sisters ...Carey & Hart, 1838 - 422 Seiten |
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... possible statement of uncontroverted facts , without the smallest attempt to adjust the balance of " the Blagdon controversy . " In adopting this line , I am not influenced by the belief that Mrs. More was 1 * wrong . That question is ...
... possible statement of uncontroverted facts , without the smallest attempt to adjust the balance of " the Blagdon controversy . " In adopting this line , I am not influenced by the belief that Mrs. More was 1 * wrong . That question is ...
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... possible al- together to decline it . The Blagdon school had been founded in the year 1795 , at the earnest solicitation of the Rev. Thomas Bere , curate of that parish , and a ma- gistrate . The profligate condition of the parish ...
... possible al- together to decline it . The Blagdon school had been founded in the year 1795 , at the earnest solicitation of the Rev. Thomas Bere , curate of that parish , and a ma- gistrate . The profligate condition of the parish ...
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... possible to doubt that to the state of Mrs. More's mind at this period the Christian world is indebted for a reflection , which , while it challenges insertion here as a faithful transcript of her feelings , is yet more valuable for the ...
... possible to doubt that to the state of Mrs. More's mind at this period the Christian world is indebted for a reflection , which , while it challenges insertion here as a faithful transcript of her feelings , is yet more valuable for the ...
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... possible . I wish I could avoid naming them altogether . It will be out of my power to enter into a full vindication of myself against charges with which I am not fully ac- quainted . A wish to keep my mind calm in a dangerous illness ...
... possible . I wish I could avoid naming them altogether . It will be out of my power to enter into a full vindication of myself against charges with which I am not fully ac- quainted . A wish to keep my mind calm in a dangerous illness ...
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... possible , to bear up against the accumu- lation of obloquy and indignity under which her bodily powers were sinking , and her mind was agitated and distressed . But the conclusion would do injustice to the victorious power of faith ...
... possible , to bear up against the accumu- lation of obloquy and indignity under which her bodily powers were sinking , and her mind was agitated and distressed . But the conclusion would do injustice to the victorious power of faith ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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.