The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...E. Earle, 1818 |
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... human teacher . The writer is persuaded , that many read the Epis- tles of Saint Paul with deep reverence for the sta- tion they hold in the Inspired Oracles , without considering that they are at the same time supreme- ly B 2 PREFACE .
... human teacher . The writer is persuaded , that many read the Epis- tles of Saint Paul with deep reverence for the sta- tion they hold in the Inspired Oracles , without considering that they are at the same time supreme- ly B 2 PREFACE .
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... tion , but the surest standard of morals . In a multitude of the noble sentences and beauti- ful aphorisms of many of the heathen writers , there was indeed a strong tone of morality . But these fine sentiments , not flowing from any ...
... tion , but the surest standard of morals . In a multitude of the noble sentences and beauti- ful aphorisms of many of the heathen writers , there was indeed a strong tone of morality . But these fine sentiments , not flowing from any ...
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... tion , him who is able to seize their meaning , and to taste their beauties ; so that an able critic of their writings almost ranks with him who excels in ori- ginal composition . In like manner the lives of their great men abound in ...
... tion , him who is able to seize their meaning , and to taste their beauties ; so that an able critic of their writings almost ranks with him who excels in ori- ginal composition . In like manner the lives of their great men abound in ...
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... tion , of every diversity of character and turn of mind : the monarch and the plebeian , the illiterate and the learned , the foremost in talent and the moderately gifted in natural advantages , the historian and the legislator , the ...
... tion , of every diversity of character and turn of mind : the monarch and the plebeian , the illiterate and the learned , the foremost in talent and the moderately gifted in natural advantages , the historian and the legislator , the ...
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... tion , not any artifice to call the reader's attention to the marvels of which the relaters were the witnesses . Absorbed in their holy task , no alien idea presents itself to their mind : the object before them fills it . They never ...
... tion , not any artifice to call the reader's attention to the marvels of which the relaters were the witnesses . Absorbed in their holy task , no alien idea presents itself to their mind : the object before them fills it . They never ...
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Page 71 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 169 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 83 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 282 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Page 184 - The oppressor holds His body bound ; but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain ; And that to bind him is a vain attempt, Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells.
Page 142 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 267 - Behold I show you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again ; but we shall not all be changed : in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet ; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible ; and we shall be changed.
Page 61 - Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page 304 - That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Page 311 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.