The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 1Goodrich, 1827 - English literature |
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... Bragwell ; or , The Two Wealthy Farmers , 123 132 Dan and Jane , or , Faith and Works , ' Tis All for the Best , 157 An Heroic Epistle to Miss Sally Horne , Sensibility : an Epistle to the Hon . Mrs. Bos- A Cure for Melancholy , 173 The ...
... Bragwell ; or , The Two Wealthy Farmers , 123 132 Dan and Jane , or , Faith and Works , ' Tis All for the Best , 157 An Heroic Epistle to Miss Sally Horne , Sensibility : an Epistle to the Hon . Mrs. Bos- A Cure for Melancholy , 173 The ...
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... BRAGWELL . PART I - THE VISIT . IN SEVEN PARTS . MR . BRAGWELL and Mr. Worthy happen- ed to meet last year at Weyhill fair . They were glad to see each other , as they had but seldom met of late ; Mr. Bragwell having removed some years ...
... BRAGWELL . PART I - THE VISIT . IN SEVEN PARTS . MR . BRAGWELL and Mr. Worthy happen- ed to meet last year at Weyhill fair . They were glad to see each other , as they had but seldom met of late ; Mr. Bragwell having removed some years ...
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... Bragwell the son of the servant . Bragwell's father had been ploughman in the family of Mr. Worthy's uncle , a sensible man , who farmed a small estate of his own , and who having no children , bred up young Worthy as his son ...
... Bragwell the son of the servant . Bragwell's father had been ploughman in the family of Mr. Worthy's uncle , a sensible man , who farmed a small estate of his own , and who having no children , bred up young Worthy as his son ...
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... Bragwell sent her daughters to a to set about making him a gentleman , she boarding - school , where she instructed them had begun by teazing him till he had turned away all his poor relations who worked in the farm she next drew him ...
... Bragwell sent her daughters to a to set about making him a gentleman , she boarding - school , where she instructed them had begun by teazing him till he had turned away all his poor relations who worked in the farm she next drew him ...
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... Bragwell being one day very busy in preparing a great dinner for the neighbours , ventured to request her daughters ... Bragwell and Worthy , met at Weybil fair , as was said before . After many hearty salutations had passed between them ...
... Bragwell being one day very busy in preparing a great dinner for the neighbours , ventured to request her daughters ... Bragwell and Worthy , met at Weybil fair , as was said before . After many hearty salutations had passed between them ...
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Page 111 - 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 the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 140 - Thank God, neither I nor my family can be said to break the seventh commandment. Worthy. Here again, remember how Christ himself hath said, " Whoso looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Page 452 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 401 - Give alms of thy goods, and never turn thy face from any poor man ; and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee.
Page 39 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 105 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 185 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 341 - They should be therefore trained with a view to these several conditions, and be furnished with a stock of ideas and principles, and qualifications and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated, as occasion may demand, to each of these respective situations. For though the arts which merely embellish life must claim admiration, yet when a man of sense comes to marry it is a companion he wants, and not an artist.
Page 277 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day, hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time ; and the week that hath been so begun, hath been blessed and prosperous to me...
Page 134 - But it was in vain to speak ; for his daughters constantly stopped his mouth by a favourite saying of theirs, which equally indicated affectation and vulgarity — that it was better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Soon after dinner, the women went out to their several employments, and Mr. Worthy, being left alone with his guest, the following discourse took place.