Miscellaneous Works: Stories for persons in the middle ranks. Tales for the common people. Strictures on female education. Hints towards forming the character of a young princess. Estimate of the religion of the fashionable world. Essays, &c., &cT. Tegg, 1840 |
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Página v
... vanity and flattery are now less generally ostensible even in the most indifferent authors , than they were formerly in some of the best . The most self - sufficient writer is at length driven , by the prevailing sense of propriety , to ...
... vanity and flattery are now less generally ostensible even in the most indifferent authors , than they were formerly in some of the best . The most self - sufficient writer is at length driven , by the prevailing sense of propriety , to ...
Página viii
... vanity , reduces objects to their natural size , restores them to their exact shape , makes them appear to the sight such as they are in themselves , and such as perhaps they have long appeared to all except the author . That I have ...
... vanity , reduces objects to their natural size , restores them to their exact shape , makes them appear to the sight such as they are in themselves , and such as perhaps they have long appeared to all except the author . That I have ...
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... vanity which is so easily kindled where merit and success are evidently disproportionate . For fair criticism I have ever been truly thankful . For candid correction , from whatever quarter it came , I have always exhibited the most ...
... vanity which is so easily kindled where merit and success are evidently disproportionate . For fair criticism I have ever been truly thankful . For candid correction , from whatever quarter it came , I have always exhibited the most ...
Página xii
... vanity dies away , every swelling of ambition subsides , before the consideration of this solemn responsibility . And though I have just avowed my defer- ence for the opinion of private critics , and of public censors ; yet my anxiety ...
... vanity dies away , every swelling of ambition subsides , before the consideration of this solemn responsibility . And though I have just avowed my defer- ence for the opinion of private critics , and of public censors ; yet my anxiety ...
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... vanity began to display itself , though not in the ordinary method , that of making a figure and living away ; but still he was tormented with a longing desire to draw public notice , and to distinguish himself . He felt a general sense ...
... vanity began to display itself , though not in the ordinary method , that of making a figure and living away ; but still he was tormented with a longing desire to draw public notice , and to distinguish himself . He felt a general sense ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 533 - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Página 532 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Página 77 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 534 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Página 622 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Página 705 - Through the tender mercy of our God : whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us ; To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Página 625 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 278 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Página 197 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Página 360 - The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance : He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.