The Works of Hannah More, Հատոր 2Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Արդյունքներ 49–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... instruction , and every period be pointed with wit . On the tiptoe of expectation I went to dine with Sir John Belfield , in Cavendish square . I looked at my watch fifty times . I thought it would never be six o'clock . I did not care ...
... instruction , and every period be pointed with wit . On the tiptoe of expectation I went to dine with Sir John Belfield , in Cavendish square . I looked at my watch fifty times . I thought it would never be six o'clock . I did not care ...
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... instruction for her daughters ; but though I put the question with much caution and deference , she looked displeased , and said she did not think it necessary to do a great deal in that way ; all these things must come from above ; it ...
... instruction for her daughters ; but though I put the question with much caution and deference , she looked displeased , and said she did not think it necessary to do a great deal in that way ; all these things must come from above ; it ...
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... instruction without prayer . That it was like a husbandman , who should expect that praying for sunshine should produce a crop of corn in a field where not one grain had been sown . God , indeed , could effect this , but he does not do ...
... instruction without prayer . That it was like a husbandman , who should expect that praying for sunshine should produce a crop of corn in a field where not one grain had been sown . God , indeed , could effect this , but he does not do ...
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... instruction of the young and ignorant made any part of the duty of the rich towards them . When I once ventured to drop a hint on this subject to Mrs. Ranby , she dryly said , there were many other ways of doing good to the poor ...
... instruction of the young and ignorant made any part of the duty of the rich towards them . When I once ventured to drop a hint on this subject to Mrs. Ranby , she dryly said , there were many other ways of doing good to the poor ...
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... instruction , and of extracting some profitable hint , or striking out some important light , from subjects which , in ordinary hands , would have been unproductive of improve- ment . It was evident that piety was the predominating prin ...
... instruction , and of extracting some profitable hint , or striking out some important light , from subjects which , in ordinary hands , would have been unproductive of improve- ment . It was evident that piety was the predominating prin ...
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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.