Thornton Abbey: A Series of Letters on Religious Subjects ...Williams & Whiting, 1809 - 468 pages |
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... to visit the Miss Harcourts , who you know live seven miles from Thornton , in the pride of my heart I begged permission to go by myself . The next day , as I was coming back , my poney stumbled on the gallop , and threw me over 55 .
... to visit the Miss Harcourts , who you know live seven miles from Thornton , in the pride of my heart I begged permission to go by myself . The next day , as I was coming back , my poney stumbled on the gallop , and threw me over 55 .
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... heart to see a place where so many protestants had been put to death , to the reproach and scandal of our religion . Indeed , said my sister , I am not sorry about it . I have often heard my father say it was their own fault . If they ...
... heart to see a place where so many protestants had been put to death , to the reproach and scandal of our religion . Indeed , said my sister , I am not sorry about it . I have often heard my father say it was their own fault . If they ...
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... heart burnt within me . How un- like , said I to myself , is this to saying prayers in an un- known tongue , or to running them over as a school - boy re- peats his task . This man prays as if he was petitioning for his life at the bar ...
... heart burnt within me . How un- like , said I to myself , is this to saying prayers in an un- known tongue , or to running them over as a school - boy re- peats his task . This man prays as if he was petitioning for his life at the bar ...
Page 75
... . Worthington to Miss Eusebia Neville . MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND , I RECEIVED your letter the day after my niece had left me . She returned home with a heart full of grief both on her own account and mine . Every day gives 75.
... . Worthington to Miss Eusebia Neville . MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND , I RECEIVED your letter the day after my niece had left me . She returned home with a heart full of grief both on her own account and mine . Every day gives 75.
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... heart . He will ask me what I have to plead why judgment should not pass against me . Pray , my dear father , what can I say ; or what could you answer in the same case ? for your case it must be as well as mine . My dear Eusebia ...
... heart . He will ask me what I have to plead why judgment should not pass against me . Pray , my dear father , what can I say ; or what could you answer in the same case ? for your case it must be as well as mine . My dear Eusebia ...
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Page 459 - O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, 'Behold your God!
Page 454 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 458 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 463 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 454 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Page 464 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 463 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
Page 457 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting.
Page 453 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 453 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the 7 P».