No Fiction: A Narrative, Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts, Volume 2Francis Westley, 1820 |
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... took her under her roof , with the design of superintending her education . For this work she was happily qualified . In her youth she had felt the evils of too rigid , and , in her age , she had seen the evils of too lax a system ; she ...
... took her under her roof , with the design of superintending her education . For this work she was happily qualified . In her youth she had felt the evils of too rigid , and , in her age , she had seen the evils of too lax a system ; she ...
Page 101
... took him in hand . Poor fellow ! -he was as mad as a March hare , when I found him tormented by those canting , psalm - singing methodists . - Not half so bad now -- He'll soon be right again , I'll warrant . " 66 “ Thank God ...
... took him in hand . Poor fellow ! -he was as mad as a March hare , when I found him tormented by those canting , psalm - singing methodists . - Not half so bad now -- He'll soon be right again , I'll warrant . " 66 “ Thank God ...
Page 107
... took a glass of wine , the only voluntary refreshment that had passed his lips since the day he visited Douglas . Revived by this season- able cordial , he was leaving the seat on which he had sought rest - still without an object ...
... took a glass of wine , the only voluntary refreshment that had passed his lips since the day he visited Douglas . Revived by this season- able cordial , he was leaving the seat on which he had sought rest - still without an object ...
Page 130
... took of any thing , distinct from his slight refreshment , was to put a small testament in his pocket , which laid on the table . The book was the one he had given to Caroline . His mother had found it amongst his things , and had ...
... took of any thing , distinct from his slight refreshment , was to put a small testament in his pocket , which laid on the table . The book was the one he had given to Caroline . His mother had found it amongst his things , and had ...
Page 139
... took a new turn , and running to him , she said- " Cruel ! Did I say you were cruel ? No , you are not cruel ! Dear patient sufferer ! you are not cruel ! forgive me ! -Only don't bid me leave you . I cannot bear that word " -and she ...
... took a new turn , and running to him , she said- " Cruel ! Did I say you were cruel ? No , you are not cruel ! Dear patient sufferer ! you are not cruel ! forgive me ! -Only don't bid me leave you . I cannot bear that word " -and she ...
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Page 188 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
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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 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 136 - Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto Him : Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously.
Page 203 - He hath brought me up out of the horrible pit and the miry clay ; and hath set my feet upon a rock, and hath established my goings ; and hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to my God !' O, if I am saved it must be as
Page 216 - Mine ! — Oh, say not they are too cold, too slow to kindle. They are too easily roused, too ardent, too soon bent before an earthly idol ; but" here she laid her hand on his arm — "but the right hand must be cut off, the right eye plucked out. I would not again be their slave, under the tyranny and dominion of these elements of our fallen nature, for all the pomps and vanities which they would purchase. There be mightier obstacles than those of expediency, as thou dost well imagine, to thy suit...
Page 198 - Corinthians, when he tells them that faith stands not " in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God,
Page 251 - In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free, Col.