Some Account of the Reverend Thomas Robinson, M.A.: Late Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, and Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge : with a Selection of Original LettersSherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1916 - 470 pages |
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... exercise . I conclude what his custom was , from the par- ticular directions which he gave me on this subject , when I first went to college . " Re- serve half an hour at your rising , " said he , for this purpose . Read a few verses ...
... exercise . I conclude what his custom was , from the par- ticular directions which he gave me on this subject , when I first went to college . " Re- serve half an hour at your rising , " said he , for this purpose . Read a few verses ...
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... exercises , who after- wards owned that they had acted very un- becomingly in deriding his religion : when they had known and conversed with the man , they could not help respecting him . " What he endeavoured to feel and practise in ...
... exercises , who after- wards owned that they had acted very un- becomingly in deriding his religion : when they had known and conversed with the man , they could not help respecting him . " What he endeavoured to feel and practise in ...
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... exercises ; and in sacrificing " the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit " to the turbulence and selfishness of ambi- tion . These evils should by all means be avoided ; but it is due to religion , to your friends , and to your great ...
... exercises ; and in sacrificing " the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit " to the turbulence and selfishness of ambi- tion . These evils should by all means be avoided ; but it is due to religion , to your friends , and to your great ...
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... exercise ; as possessing a remarkable degree of acuteness , solidity , and self - possession , together with a fair share of mathematical knowledge . He was well acquainted with natural philosophy , though but little with analytics ...
... exercise ; as possessing a remarkable degree of acuteness , solidity , and self - possession , together with a fair share of mathematical knowledge . He was well acquainted with natural philosophy , though but little with analytics ...
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... exercise , for promoting the present and abiding edification of the people , I cannot but deem it highly expe- dient , that the ministers of the church of England should exercise a privilege which seems clearly to belong to them , of ...
... exercise , for promoting the present and abiding edification of the people , I cannot but deem it highly expe- dient , that the ministers of the church of England should exercise a privilege which seems clearly to belong to them , of ...
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Page 251 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 258 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 365 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works : otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace : otherwise work is no more work.
Page 59 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 74 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 295 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Page 103 - Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.
Page ii - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page ii - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 371 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that none of them were of us.