The British Prose Writers: Talbot's Reflections, essays, etc |
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To preserve the tenderest affection for their persons , and keep up and declare
openly the strongest abhorrence of their faults ; to avoid every degree and every
instance of ease and familiarity that may seem to give the least countenance to ...
To preserve the tenderest affection for their persons , and keep up and declare
openly the strongest abhorrence of their faults ; to avoid every degree and every
instance of ease and familiarity that may seem to give the least countenance to ...
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There is a kind of character , which does not in the least deserve to be reckoned
polite , though it is exact in every punctilio of behaviour ; such as would not , for
the world , omit paying you the civility of a bow , or fail in the least circumstance of
...
There is a kind of character , which does not in the least deserve to be reckoned
polite , though it is exact in every punctilio of behaviour ; such as would not , for
the world , omit paying you the civility of a bow , or fail in the least circumstance of
...
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True taste in every thing is plainness and simplicity , the least deviation from
nature that is pos . sible ; for that is very consistent with the highest improvement
of it . Buildings , gardens , statues , pictures , writings of all sorts , come within this
...
True taste in every thing is plainness and simplicity , the least deviation from
nature that is pos . sible ; for that is very consistent with the highest improvement
of it . Buildings , gardens , statues , pictures , writings of all sorts , come within this
...
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The worse the world is , the more need it has of good people ' s trying to mend it ;
and should they be ever so unsuccessful , in regard to themselves , at least , they
have not lost their pains . Meanly , indeed , do they betray the cause : of virtae ...
The worse the world is , the more need it has of good people ' s trying to mend it ;
and should they be ever so unsuccessful , in regard to themselves , at least , they
have not lost their pains . Meanly , indeed , do they betray the cause : of virtae ...
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people , they have the least cause to despond ; they , who pursue the noblest
end by the fairest means ; they who are sure of being in the right ; they who are
sure to have the best applause for it ; they who can doubt of nothing but that their
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people , they have the least cause to despond ; they , who pursue the noblest
end by the fairest means ; they who are sure of being in the right ; they who are
sure to have the best applause for it ; they who can doubt of nothing but that their
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Էջ 18 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Էջ 3 - Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts long before. Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways.
Էջ 67 - Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and Nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Էջ 55 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Էջ 24 - I find them irreclaimable, and myself in the least possible danger of being infected by their example — then to fly them as I would the plague ; then to cut off a right hand, and pluck out a right eye, and break through every fondness and every attachment that would destroy my highest, my eternal interest.
Էջ 30 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Էջ 37 - This is that WORLD, wherein Christ coming down from heaven in the clouds, with great power, and glory, shall send his angels, and shall gather together his elect, from the four winds, and from the uttermost parts of the earth, and thenceforth reign over them, under his Father, everlastingly.
Էջ 12 - I MUST work the work of Him who sent " me, while it is day." — If our blessed Saviour, infinitely great and excellent, was, when he assumed human nature, so far from being exempted from the general law of nature imposed on our first father and all his race ; who is there amongst men, that shall plead an exemption ? The duty of employment is twofold.
Էջ 61 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Էջ 22 - ... through life. Those who are too poor to give alms, can yet give their time, their trouble, their assistance in preparing or forwarding the gifts of others ; in considering and representing distressed cases to those who can relieve them ; in visiting and comforting the sick and afflicted. Everybody can offer up their prayers for those who need them : which, if they do reverently and sincerely, they will never be wanting in giving them every other assistance that it should please God to put in...