The Life of Hannah More: With Notices of Her Sisters, Band 1T. Cadell, 1838 - 399 Seiten |
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... views , every acqui- sition that implied a mind was then supposed to be essentially masculine ; the Latin language itself , necessary as it is to a critical understanding of our own , and to a liberal and intelligent study of our native ...
... views , every acqui- sition that implied a mind was then supposed to be essentially masculine ; the Latin language itself , necessary as it is to a critical understanding of our own , and to a liberal and intelligent study of our native ...
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... views , endued them with the elevation and stability which belongs to the calm convictions of reason . To know that the day must come when genius so bright , when accomplishments so splendid , must utterly perish , and leave their ...
... views , endued them with the elevation and stability which belongs to the calm convictions of reason . To know that the day must come when genius so bright , when accomplishments so splendid , must utterly perish , and leave their ...
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... views . On one side of the lawn rises the abrupt hill on which the noble mansion of Aldwick Court has since been erected . To the south spreads the rich and sylvan valley , bounded by the dark outline of the Mendips , with their warm ...
... views . On one side of the lawn rises the abrupt hill on which the noble mansion of Aldwick Court has since been erected . To the south spreads the rich and sylvan valley , bounded by the dark outline of the Mendips , with their warm ...
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... views on this subject . She had been reading Shakspeare , in whose writings she intensely delighted , when a Calvinistick friend , to whom she made some observation on the sub- ject , replied , " No book for me but the book of Christ ...
... views on this subject . She had been reading Shakspeare , in whose writings she intensely delighted , when a Calvinistick friend , to whom she made some observation on the sub- ject , replied , " No book for me but the book of Christ ...
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... views , and , by expanding their minds , furnish them with topicks for general conversation and useful reflection . It would enlarge their charity , by letting them see that many authors are not wicked , though they do not always ...
... views , and , by expanding their minds , furnish them with topicks for general conversation and useful reflection . It would enlarge their charity , by letting them see that many authors are not wicked , though they do not always ...
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Seite 371 - 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 395 - 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 58 - Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. 13: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Seite 7 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Seite 288 - For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Seite 156 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Seite 376 - 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 398 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Seite 386 - A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Seite 254 - PRACTICAL PIETY; Or, the Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life, 32mo, portrait, cloth, 2s.
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