Letters to a Young Lady: On a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects. Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Form the Manners and Enlighten the Understanding ...William Fessenden, 1811 - 318 oldal |
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22. oldal
... learned or d the elegant . Under an beap of worldly cares , w smother the lovely infant , and will not let it breathe Vanity , ambition , pleasure , avarice , quench th celestial fire . And these alas ! are too much th god of mortals ...
... learned or d the elegant . Under an beap of worldly cares , w smother the lovely infant , and will not let it breathe Vanity , ambition , pleasure , avarice , quench th celestial fire . And these alas ! are too much th god of mortals ...
32. oldal
... when stripped of their gaudy plumage , they condescend to in- struct , to bless and reform the meanest of inan . kind . Metaphysical reasonings are for the learned Jew , and often mislead them ; these practicable la 32 LETTERS TO A.
... when stripped of their gaudy plumage , they condescend to in- struct , to bless and reform the meanest of inan . kind . Metaphysical reasonings are for the learned Jew , and often mislead them ; these practicable la 32 LETTERS TO A.
35. oldal
... learned from it , as well as from the scrip- tires . They are the pillars of the church ; the life and blood of the christian system . Without the atonement of Christ , criminals as we are , there never could have been any hope of mercy ...
... learned from it , as well as from the scrip- tires . They are the pillars of the church ; the life and blood of the christian system . Without the atonement of Christ , criminals as we are , there never could have been any hope of mercy ...
36. oldal
... learned disquisitions , or some speculative controverted subject , more calculated to display abilities , than to edify ; or they are spruce , moral essays with little more of christianity in them , than might be gleaned from the works ...
... learned disquisitions , or some speculative controverted subject , more calculated to display abilities , than to edify ; or they are spruce , moral essays with little more of christianity in them , than might be gleaned from the works ...
39. oldal
... learned quo- tations , than would have sufficed for inculcating some lesson of piety , that would never have been forgotten . Modern writers have judiciously cor- rected this mistake . They come more immediately to the point , and would ...
... learned quo- tations , than would have sufficed for inculcating some lesson of piety , that would never have been forgotten . Modern writers have judiciously cor- rected this mistake . They come more immediately to the point , and would ...
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284. oldal - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
98. oldal - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
24. oldal - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
290. oldal - ... eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God has prepared for them that love him; — nor yet, I may add, the wrath which he has prepared for those who do not love him.
14. oldal - But if God doth so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more shall he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
184. oldal - O shades of Hagley, where is now your boast ? Your bright inhabitant is lost, You she preferr'd to all the gay resorts Where female vanity might wish to shine, The pomp of cities, and the pride of courts.
133. oldal - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world, by our Lord Jesus Christ ; for the means of grace ; and for the hope of glory.
13. oldal - The impassion'd soul? and whence the robes of light Which thus invest her with more lovely pomp Than Fancy can describe? Whence but from Thee, O source divine of ever-flowing love! And Thy unmeasured goodness?
156. oldal - Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
184. oldal - And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love.