The Life and Character of Thomas Letchworthauthor, 1786 - 108 pages |
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... foon replied , as nearly as can be recollected , in the following words ' : " There was a time , when he was in fome de- gree the object of my fear , and still more of ( 6 my diflike ; his illiberal manner of thinking , " and his zeal ...
... foon replied , as nearly as can be recollected , in the following words ' : " There was a time , when he was in fome de- gree the object of my fear , and still more of ( 6 my diflike ; his illiberal manner of thinking , " and his zeal ...
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... foon afterwards fuggested to him , that a freedom fo unkind and unwarrantable , feemed to merit at his hands a call upon his brother for fome fuitable publick acknowledgment : - " No , " faid he , " I am content to forego any " fuppofed ...
... foon afterwards fuggested to him , that a freedom fo unkind and unwarrantable , feemed to merit at his hands a call upon his brother for fome fuitable publick acknowledgment : - " No , " faid he , " I am content to forego any " fuppofed ...
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... foon take up and adhere to a belief , or fyftem of faith , without reason and without evidence , as on the fubject of the highest importance ! From this kind of ftudy he must have been abundantly confirmed in his own belief , that there ...
... foon take up and adhere to a belief , or fyftem of faith , without reason and without evidence , as on the fubject of the highest importance ! From this kind of ftudy he must have been abundantly confirmed in his own belief , that there ...
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... foon begin to ficken us of this trifling scene , " and prompt us , should we attain to old age , " full of those infirmities , to crawl on our " crutches to the grave for reft . ' Beyond the grave my fears do not extend : I am content ...
... foon begin to ficken us of this trifling scene , " and prompt us , should we attain to old age , " full of those infirmities , to crawl on our " crutches to the grave for reft . ' Beyond the grave my fears do not extend : I am content ...
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... foon after he had placed him at a distant school . " I am glad to hear my dear child is well and “ eafy ; —a great part of my happiness in this " world depends on his welfare . Though he " is not distinguished , as Joseph was , by a ...
... foon after he had placed him at a distant school . " I am glad to hear my dear child is well and “ eafy ; —a great part of my happiness in this " world depends on his welfare . Though he " is not distinguished , as Joseph was , by a ...
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Page 12 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 14 - The archers have forely grieved him, " and fhot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode " in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made " ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 14 - Lord, and do good, fa fhalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou fhalt be fed.
Page 30 - God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 97 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil : for Thou art with me ; Thy rod and Thy ftaff comfort me.
Page 66 - The kingdom of Christ, not being a kingdom of this world, is not limited by the restrictions which fetter other societies, political or religious.
Page 103 - Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear: Safe in the Hand of one difpofing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal Hour.
Page 30 - But GoD hath chofen the foolifh things of this world to confound the wife...
Page 13 - God had called him, even a Workman that needed not to be afhamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Page 56 - In the moral world, the undertending, " taken for the faculties, is to the mind what " the eye is to the body; and the...