Short Discourses, to be Read in Families, Volume 1printed and sold for the author by M. Gye, 1809 |
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Page xv
... natural , not elaborate , nor highly polished - they should be entertaining and in- teresting , not dry and soporific . be Hence they should shun the formality of me- thod and numerous divisions ; and abound with short and significant ...
... natural , not elaborate , nor highly polished - they should be entertaining and in- teresting , not dry and soporific . be Hence they should shun the formality of me- thod and numerous divisions ; and abound with short and significant ...
Page xix
... nature ; the heart is then soft and serious . He has improved the various seasons of the year . He has also provided subjects which are adapt- ed to all the greater festivals . Members of the established church may read these on the ap ...
... nature ; the heart is then soft and serious . He has improved the various seasons of the year . He has also provided subjects which are adapt- ed to all the greater festivals . Members of the established church may read these on the ap ...
Page xxxix
... natural parts , and servants are civil parts of yourselves . These have therefore pe- culiar claims upon you , and were you to avow that you had no regard for them , and would do nothing that could advance their welfare - what would ...
... natural parts , and servants are civil parts of yourselves . These have therefore pe- culiar claims upon you , and were you to avow that you had no regard for them , and would do nothing that could advance their welfare - what would ...
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... . School or trade calls them away from home , and they are no longer under the eye of their natural guardians . It was well for the little Shunamite when seized in the field that he had a father by - he said 14 GOD THE BEST OF FATHERS .
... . School or trade calls them away from home , and they are no longer under the eye of their natural guardians . It was well for the little Shunamite when seized in the field that he had a father by - he said 14 GOD THE BEST OF FATHERS .
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... nature instructive and edifying . Let us not be of the number of those of whom the prophet speaks , when he says seeing many things they observe not . Nor let us contemplate the creation with the eye of a naturalist only . Let us go ...
... nature instructive and edifying . Let us not be of the number of those of whom the prophet speaks , when he says seeing many things they observe not . Nor let us contemplate the creation with the eye of a naturalist only . Let us go ...
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