Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Hunt and Clarke, 1830 |
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Página 39
... late at night . When we were returning home by the way of Rockwell Green , ( commonly called Rogue Green , from a gang of rob- bers and house - breakers who formerly lived there , ) having just past the bridge , we were met by several ...
... late at night . When we were returning home by the way of Rockwell Green , ( commonly called Rogue Green , from a gang of rob- bers and house - breakers who formerly lived there , ) having just past the bridge , we were met by several ...
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... late in the garden saw a great boy get in at the window of an old house next door ( part of which was in ruins , ) and soon after the house began to shake as usual , on which the family went out of their own habitation and entered the ...
... late in the garden saw a great boy get in at the window of an old house next door ( part of which was in ruins , ) and soon after the house began to shake as usual , on which the family went out of their own habitation and entered the ...
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... late to render him any kind of service , they let him lie still . The master soon after this pressed him much to know the mysterious cause of so much misery , and so unnatural an end . The dying wretch exclaimed , " a wounded conscience ...
... late to render him any kind of service , they let him lie still . The master soon after this pressed him much to know the mysterious cause of so much misery , and so unnatural an end . The dying wretch exclaimed , " a wounded conscience ...
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... late Dr Pitcairn , of Edinburgh , and the collier , is well known . This strong healthy collier was , on his way to Edinburgh , made to believe by the doctor's students , although in perfect health , that he was really very ill , and ...
... late Dr Pitcairn , of Edinburgh , and the collier , is well known . This strong healthy collier was , on his way to Edinburgh , made to believe by the doctor's students , although in perfect health , that he was really very ill , and ...
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... late Mr La Bute , at Cambridge , who was well known , he having taught French in that university upwards of forty years . He informed me that near forty years since , Mr Whitefield having advertised himself to preach at Gog - Magog ...
... late Mr La Bute , at Cambridge , who was well known , he having taught French in that university upwards of forty years . He informed me that near forty years since , Mr Whitefield having advertised himself to preach at Gog - Magog ...
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Página 342 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 116 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Página 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 314 - Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally, those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other's mint ; Each sire and dam, of an infernal race, Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
Página 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 342 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk); but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Página 249 - But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Página 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Página 289 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.