Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... religion have no relish with them , in com- parison to books of mystic devotion : and Otway's fine tragedies are rejected for the rant of Mr Dryden . " There are thousands in this society who will never read anything besides the bible ...
... religion have no relish with them , in com- parison to books of mystic devotion : and Otway's fine tragedies are rejected for the rant of Mr Dryden . " There are thousands in this society who will never read anything besides the bible ...
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... religion would be a day of woe to methodism . " Mr Foote was only a spy at Whitefield's academy , while I ( says Mr Wilkinson ) had been a zealot ; for some seasons before my encounter at Covent - garden with Mr Foote , my attendance ...
... religion would be a day of woe to methodism . " Mr Foote was only a spy at Whitefield's academy , while I ( says Mr Wilkinson ) had been a zealot ; for some seasons before my encounter at Covent - garden with Mr Foote , my attendance ...
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... religious sort , which at that time we had no relish for . So that we were at a loss how to increase our small stock of science . And here I cannot help thinking that had Fortune thrown proper books in our way , we should 92 THE LIFE OF.
... religious sort , which at that time we had no relish for . So that we were at a loss how to increase our small stock of science . And here I cannot help thinking that had Fortune thrown proper books in our way , we should 92 THE LIFE OF.
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... religious cha- racter ; all which made me resolve to leave Kings- bridge , which I did in 1770 . I travelled as far as Exeter the first day , where I worked about a fortnight , and saved sufficient to carry me to Bridgewater , where I ...
... religious cha- racter ; all which made me resolve to leave Kings- bridge , which I did in 1770 . I travelled as far as Exeter the first day , where I worked about a fortnight , and saved sufficient to carry me to Bridgewater , where I ...
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... religion , extravagant devotion , & c . , in which are many very curious remarks on visionaries of vari- ous ages and sects . This work is complete in five parts octavo . There has also been a decent Scotch edition , published in ...
... religion , extravagant devotion , & c . , in which are many very curious remarks on visionaries of vari- ous ages and sects . This work is complete in five parts octavo . There has also been a decent Scotch edition , published in ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen18 Vista completa - 1827 |
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Página 344 - 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 291 - 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 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Página 291 - Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 344 - 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 166 - And you who never err'd through pride ; You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no more ; I to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools— go, go, you're bit...
Página 111 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
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 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.