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... desire to go and spend my time , and my money , in idle com- gaining a little knowledge . I know , dear Father pany , but I delight in sitting with my book , and A Letter from an Apprentice to his Father . 11 A Letter from an Apprentice ...
... desire to go and spend my time , and my money , in idle com- gaining a little knowledge . I know , dear Father pany , but I delight in sitting with my book , and A Letter from an Apprentice to his Father . 11 A Letter from an Apprentice ...
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... desire to learn about them . It would cost a deal of money to get books all about these things , and it would take up more time than I can spare to read them : and perhaps there is a great deal in them not worth my knowing . I think you ...
... desire to learn about them . It would cost a deal of money to get books all about these things , and it would take up more time than I can spare to read them : and perhaps there is a great deal in them not worth my knowing . I think you ...
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... desire to seek your amusement in improving your mind , and acquainting yourself with useful know .. ledge . A little knowledge of history may be of great service to you ; and , instead of a hindrance in the way of religion , may serve ...
... desire to seek your amusement in improving your mind , and acquainting yourself with useful know .. ledge . A little knowledge of history may be of great service to you ; and , instead of a hindrance in the way of religion , may serve ...
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... desire to learn the way of salvation , and to profit by it , we shall find good . But , as Lord Bacon says , " He that comes to seek after knowledge , with a mind to scorn and censure , shall be sure to find matter enough for his humour ...
... desire to learn the way of salvation , and to profit by it , we shall find good . But , as Lord Bacon says , " He that comes to seek after knowledge , with a mind to scorn and censure , shall be sure to find matter enough for his humour ...
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... desires and inclinations . And He has moreover given us directions for our behaviour written in his Holy Scriptures . Man should therefore be ashamed blindly to follow that way in which his desires would lead him , instead of reasoning ...
... desires and inclinations . And He has moreover given us directions for our behaviour written in his Holy Scriptures . Man should therefore be ashamed blindly to follow that way in which his desires would lead him , instead of reasoning ...
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Page 412 - Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 437 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains ; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Page 160 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing' That thus they all shall meet in future days: There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 137 - WILL you deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world...
Page 412 - Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 291 - O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Page 79 - Whose adorning let it not be that outWard adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 481 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 411 - Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 438 - For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days : for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.