No Fiction: A Narrative, Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts, Volume 2Francis Westley, 1820 |
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Page 188 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Page 216 - For love, in my opinion, is as much the life of the soul, as the soul is the life of the body.
Page 137 - I have no pleasure in the DEATH of a sinner, but rather that he should TURN FROM HIS WICKEDNESS AND LIVE.
Page 251 - Behold, how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity...
Page 3 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Page 202 - О that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 192 - But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto me, so that I may finish my course with joy...
Page 172 - May your judgment be for liberty and not for slavery; for happiness and not for wretchedness; for hope and not for despair: and may the blessing of him that is ready to perish come upon you.