Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of James Lackington: The Present Bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London. Written by Himself. In Forty-six Letters to a Friend ...author, 1792 - 486 páginas |
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Página xxv
... methodism . Converts another . Controverfies enfue . Our hero learns to read . Is born again . Becomes one of the flock , page 91 LETTER VII , The methodists often ruin the peace of mind of many very innocent people . Methodistical ...
... methodism . Converts another . Controverfies enfue . Our hero learns to read . Is born again . Becomes one of the flock , page 91 LETTER VII , The methodists often ruin the peace of mind of many very innocent people . Methodistical ...
Página xxvi
... methodism . Some particulars of the practices of Mr. Wesley's fociety . Prayer meetings . Love feafts . Private meetings . - page 177 LETTER X. Watch nights . Claffes . Bands . An old buck tempted by the devil and his maid . Select ...
... methodism . Some particulars of the practices of Mr. Wesley's fociety . Prayer meetings . Love feafts . Private meetings . - page 177 LETTER X. Watch nights . Claffes . Bands . An old buck tempted by the devil and his maid . Select ...
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... methodism . His friend difplea- fed ; is however with his brother and fifter converted . Story of a methodist parrot . Goddy - mighty's little mutton . page 153 LETTER XIV . The brother , fifter , and our hero form an ún on . Purfue ...
... methodism . His friend difplea- fed ; is however with his brother and fifter converted . Story of a methodist parrot . Goddy - mighty's little mutton . page 153 LETTER XIV . The brother , fifter , and our hero form an ún on . Purfue ...
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... methodists . Shoked at the depraved mode of life in the metropolis . His confolation . Mrs. L. arrives in town . She obtains work . Anecdote of an honest falesman . Our hero's grandfather dies . A large legacy . 1 He goes to receive it ...
... methodists . Shoked at the depraved mode of life in the metropolis . His confolation . Mrs. L. arrives in town . She obtains work . Anecdote of an honest falesman . Our hero's grandfather dies . A large legacy . 1 He goes to receive it ...
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... methodists . Abftinence taught by their preachers . Their own practice the reverfe . Milk - woman drove mad . A book- feller has his hair dreffed on Saturday night , and fleeps all night in his elbow chair . John Biggs a perfect man ...
... methodists . Abftinence taught by their preachers . Their own practice the reverfe . Milk - woman drove mad . A book- feller has his hair dreffed on Saturday night , and fleeps all night in his elbow chair . John Biggs a perfect man ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 147 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 249 - 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 411 - 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.
Página 233 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 203 - Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy, nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Even kings but play, and when their part is done, Some other, worse or better, mount the throne.
Página 181 - 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 83 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark lantern of the Spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus, that bewitches, And leads men into pools and ditches...
Página 413 - Mufe's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, Their fober wifhes never learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool fequefter'd vale of life They kept the noifelefs tenor of their way. Yet...
Página xlvii - s legions now of beggars on the earth That their original did spring from kings; And many monarchs now, whose fathers were The riff-raff of their age : for time and fortune Wears out a noble train to beggary ; And from the dunghill minions do advance To state and mark in this admiring world.
Página 74 - Was almost dropp'd from her sharp bones within, And at her breast stuck vipers, which did prey Upon her panting heart both night and day, Sucking black blood from thence : which to repair, Both day and night they left fresh poisons there.