The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 2J.J. Woodward, 1830 |
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... John Belfield , in Cavendish - removal of the cloth , and was eagerly anti- square . I looked at my watch fifty times . cipating the pleasure and improvement I thought it would never be six o'clock . I which awaited me . did not care to ...
... John Belfield , in Cavendish - removal of the cloth , and was eagerly anti- square . I looked at my watch fifty times . cipating the pleasure and improvement I thought it would never be six o'clock . I which awaited me . did not care to ...
Page 352
... John and Lady Belfield to be persons of wishes to stand well . This apprehension much worth.They were candid , generous did not , indeed , drive him to renounce his and sincere . They saw the errors of the principles , but it led him to ...
... John and Lady Belfield to be persons of wishes to stand well . This apprehension much worth.They were candid , generous did not , indeed , drive him to renounce his and sincere . They saw the errors of the principles , but it led him to ...
Page 353
... Belfield was led by the strength of her affection to extreme indulgence . She encouraged no vice in them , but she ... John asked what should be the evening book . Then ri- sing , he took down from the shelf Akenside's Pleasures of ...
... Belfield was led by the strength of her affection to extreme indulgence . She encouraged no vice in them , but she ... John asked what should be the evening book . Then ri- sing , he took down from the shelf Akenside's Pleasures of ...
Page 355
... Belfield the happiness of elegant quiet , the world . He had a great income from a which she herself might have been ... John , rather gravely , said , It is with reluc- morning , she regularly carried her daugh- tance that I ever say ...
... Belfield the happiness of elegant quiet , the world . He had a great income from a which she herself might have been ... John , rather gravely , said , It is with reluc- morning , she regularly carried her daugh- tance that I ever say ...
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... Belfield was impatient for my history of the dinner . But Sir John said , laughing , ' You shall not say a word , Charles —I can tell how it was as exactly as if I had been there . Charlotte , who has the best voice , was brought out to ...
... Belfield was impatient for my history of the dinner . But Sir John said , laughing , ' You shall not say a word , Charles —I can tell how it was as exactly as if I had been there . Charlotte , who has the best voice , was brought out to ...
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Page 96 - 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.
Page 262 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 229 - GOD, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers ; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace...
Page 50 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 47 - 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.
Page 467 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 280 - Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us ; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway : for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Page 294 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Page 321 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Page 436 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.