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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10. oldal
... true and unfailing resource ; and its hopes and pros- pects , the only solid basis of consolation . In your many , solitary moments , what can afford the mind so sovereign a relief , as the exercise of devotion to an all present Gud ...
... true and unfailing resource ; and its hopes and pros- pects , the only solid basis of consolation . In your many , solitary moments , what can afford the mind so sovereign a relief , as the exercise of devotion to an all present Gud ...
14. oldal
... serene . Without piety , indeed , a woman ce n never fully possess the true powers of pleasing . She will want that meek benevolence , sympathy • and softness , which give an inexpressible lustre to her 14 LETTERS TO A.
... serene . Without piety , indeed , a woman ce n never fully possess the true powers of pleasing . She will want that meek benevolence , sympathy • and softness , which give an inexpressible lustre to her 14 LETTERS TO A.
19. oldal
... true there is evil in the world , as well as good ; there are marks of judgment , as well as mercy . There are hurricanes , as well as fanning breezes ; noxious are intermixed with useful ani- mals ! poisonous and salutary herbs grow ...
... true there is evil in the world , as well as good ; there are marks of judgment , as well as mercy . There are hurricanes , as well as fanning breezes ; noxious are intermixed with useful ani- mals ! poisonous and salutary herbs grow ...
22. oldal
... True devotion , doabiless requires a consider able degree of abstraction from the world . modern christians treat it , as a vision . many modern writers have little of its unction But it glows in the scriptures . It warms us i the ...
... True devotion , doabiless requires a consider able degree of abstraction from the world . modern christians treat it , as a vision . many modern writers have little of its unction But it glows in the scriptures . It warms us i the ...
24. oldal
... true sublime of religion . It gives a pleasing serenity to the countenance , and a cheeriulness to the spirits beyond the reach of art , or the power of affection . It communicates a real transport to the mind , which dissipation minics ...
... true sublime of religion . It gives a pleasing serenity to the countenance , and a cheeriulness to the spirits beyond the reach of art , or the power of affection . It communicates a real transport to the mind , which dissipation minics ...
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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.