The Works of Hannah More, Հատոր 2Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... happiness , but my mind involuntarily adverted to the graces of that finished picture . The ladies , in order to justify their censure , assert , that Milton , a harsh domestic tyrant , must needs be a very inad- equate judge , and , of ...
... happiness , but my mind involuntarily adverted to the graces of that finished picture . The ladies , in order to justify their censure , assert , that Milton , a harsh domestic tyrant , must needs be a very inad- equate judge , and , of ...
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... happiness , the virtue of the component parts ; in the or- der , regularity and beauty of the whole system , of which she is the moving spring . The perfection of her character , as the divine poet intimates , does not arise from a ...
... happiness , the virtue of the component parts ; in the or- der , regularity and beauty of the whole system , of which she is the moving spring . The perfection of her character , as the divine poet intimates , does not arise from a ...
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... happiness in both worlds . But time did not hang heavy on my hands if I had little society , I had many books . My father had left me a copious library , and I had learnt from him to select whatever was most valuable in that best spe ...
... happiness in both worlds . But time did not hang heavy on my hands if I had little society , I had many books . My father had left me a copious library , and I had learnt from him to select whatever was most valuable in that best spe ...
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... happiness . Do not indulge romantic ideas of superhuman excellence . Remember that the fairest creature is a fallen creature . Yet let not your standard be low . If it be absurd to expect per- fection , it is not unreasonable to expect ...
... happiness . Do not indulge romantic ideas of superhuman excellence . Remember that the fairest creature is a fallen creature . Yet let not your standard be low . If it be absurd to expect per- fection , it is not unreasonable to expect ...
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... happiness ; and this propensity had been cherished by what I had seen and enjoyed in my father's family . Home was the scene in which my imagination had pictured the only delights worthy of a rational , feeling , intellectual , immortal ...
... happiness ; and this propensity had been cherished by what I had seen and enjoyed in my father's family . Home was the scene in which my imagination had pictured the only delights worthy of a rational , feeling , intellectual , immortal ...
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Էջ 369 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Էջ 45 - Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove, When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Էջ 361 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Էջ 297 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Էջ 12 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Էջ 346 - Much less can that have any place At which a virgin hides her face, Such dross the fire must purge away; 'tis just The author blush, there where the reader must.
Էջ 244 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him ; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Էջ 421 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Էջ 9 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Էջ 274 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.