The Life of Hannah More: With Notices of Her Sisters ...Carey & Hart, 1838 - 422 Seiten |
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... wish to inflame , but to compose and reconcile you ; your business is not to dispute , but to submit . You will give the best proof that you have profited by our instructions and those of your master by carrying the religion 10 LIFE OF.
... wish to inflame , but to compose and reconcile you ; your business is not to dispute , but to submit . You will give the best proof that you have profited by our instructions and those of your master by carrying the religion 10 LIFE OF.
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... 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 of some months ...
... 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 of some months ...
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... wish of the parish . He then sent his churchwardens as a deputation from the parish ; I yielded at last , on hearing that a woman , one of his parishioners , was under sentence of death . I only name this to acquit myself of the charge ...
... wish of the parish . He then sent his churchwardens as a deputation from the parish ; I yielded at last , on hearing that a woman , one of his parishioners , was under sentence of death . I only name this to acquit myself of the charge ...
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... wish that it should not be taken from avowed enemies or total strangers . Most of my imme- diate neighbours , Mr. Leeves , the rector of my parish , Dr. Randolph , to whose congregation I belong at Bath , are likely to know more of my ...
... wish that it should not be taken from avowed enemies or total strangers . Most of my imme- diate neighbours , Mr. Leeves , the rector of my parish , Dr. Randolph , to whose congregation I belong at Bath , are likely to know more of my ...
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... wish of Socrates , to fill even a small house with real friends , had been , by a good Providence , realized to Hannah More ; and Cow- slip Green could no longer accommodate the throngs of the learned , the pious , and the dis ...
... wish of Socrates , to fill even a small house with real friends , had been , by a good Providence , realized to Hannah More ; and Cow- slip Green could no longer accommodate the throngs of the learned , the pious , and the dis ...
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.