The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life ...J. J. Woodward, 1832 |
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... perfect form of government , instead of recurring to poetic invention , need only delineate that under which they themselves live ; who , in sketching the cha- racter , and shadowing out the duties of a patriot king , have no occasion ...
... perfect form of government , instead of recurring to poetic invention , need only delineate that under which they themselves live ; who , in sketching the cha- racter , and shadowing out the duties of a patriot king , have no occasion ...
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... perfect system of morals , like the Chris- tian , would have prevented those evils . Their patriotism was oppression to the rest of the world . Their virtue was not so much sullied by pride , as founded in it ; and their justice was ...
... perfect system of morals , like the Chris- tian , would have prevented those evils . Their patriotism was oppression to the rest of the world . Their virtue was not so much sullied by pride , as founded in it ; and their justice was ...
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... perfect king . It is also worth observing , that all those various plans were both projected and executed by a monarch who , as all his- torians agree , had suffered more hardships than any ordinary adventurer , had fought more bat ...
... perfect king . It is also worth observing , that all those various plans were both projected and executed by a monarch who , as all his- torians agree , had suffered more hardships than any ordinary adventurer , had fought more bat ...
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... perfect code of laws which could be given , would fall infi . nitely short of our exigencies , if it only gave the rules without inspiring the disposition . The law of Moses had afforded admirable moral precepts , and even the sages of ...
... perfect code of laws which could be given , would fall infi . nitely short of our exigencies , if it only gave the rules without inspiring the disposition . The law of Moses had afforded admirable moral precepts , and even the sages of ...
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... perfect spe- cimen of its own efficacy . This we according ly have in the fully delineated character of the apostle St. Paul . There is , perhaps , no human person in all antiquity , of whose inmost feelings , as well as outward ...
... perfect spe- cimen of its own efficacy . This we according ly have in the fully delineated character of the apostle St. Paul . There is , perhaps , no human person in all antiquity , of whose inmost feelings , as well as outward ...
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Page 88 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Page 260 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 306 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 87 - 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 393 - 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.
Page 44 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 258 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 207 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech Thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful ; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without Thee, may by Thee be enabled to live according to Thy will ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 115 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 265 - 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.