The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...E. Earle, 1818 |
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... virtue , that out of them might well be compiled a body of Ethics , or system of precepts de officiis , in truth and complete- ness far excelling those which any philosophy hath been able to devise or deliver . DR . BARROW . VOL . VIII ...
... virtue , that out of them might well be compiled a body of Ethics , or system of precepts de officiis , in truth and complete- ness far excelling those which any philosophy hath been able to devise or deliver . DR . BARROW . VOL . VIII ...
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... virtues , to such a degree as to exalt our idea of the human intellect , and , in single instances , of the human character ... virtue to be selfish , the conqueror to be revengeful , the philosopher to be arrogant , the injured to be un ...
... virtues , to such a degree as to exalt our idea of the human intellect , and , in single instances , of the human character ... virtue to be selfish , the conqueror to be revengeful , the philosopher to be arrogant , the injured to be un ...
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... discoursed on * Plutarch relates , that Alexander , after conquering these countries had reformed some of their evil habits . VOL . VIII . C the beauty of virtue , their disquisitions generally seemed to MORALITY OF PAGANISM . 13.
... discoursed on * Plutarch relates , that Alexander , after conquering these countries had reformed some of their evil habits . VOL . VIII . C the beauty of virtue , their disquisitions generally seemed to MORALITY OF PAGANISM . 13.
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... virtue , and no al- leviation to sorrow but the impracticable injunction , not to feel it . The eight short beatitudes in the 5th of Saint Matthew convey not only more promises to virtue , and more consolation to sufferers , but more ...
... virtue , and no al- leviation to sorrow but the impracticable injunction , not to feel it . The eight short beatitudes in the 5th of Saint Matthew convey not only more promises to virtue , and more consolation to sufferers , but more ...
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... virtue , which might have been supposed likely to please them . The philo- sophers , if they were disposed to give the people some rules of duty , were overmatched by the priests , who knew they should gratify them more by omitting what ...
... virtue , which might have been supposed likely to please them . The philo- sophers , if they were disposed to give the people some rules of duty , were overmatched by the priests , who knew they should gratify them more by omitting what ...
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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.