Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... present drawback ; there he had partaken of its venifon without the incum- brance of its folitude . His Hamadryads , having no dispatches to present , and no votes to offer , foon grew infipid . The stillness of retreat became ...
... present drawback ; there he had partaken of its venifon without the incum- brance of its folitude . His Hamadryads , having no dispatches to present , and no votes to offer , foon grew infipid . The stillness of retreat became ...
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Hannah More. It is an obvious improvement in the taste and virtue of the present day , that fo many of our dictators retire , not to the turf , but to the plough ; that they make an honour- able and pleasant exchange of the cares and ...
Hannah More. It is an obvious improvement in the taste and virtue of the present day , that fo many of our dictators retire , not to the turf , but to the plough ; that they make an honour- able and pleasant exchange of the cares and ...
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... present to us . If it teaches that we have virtues to attain and imperfections to be cured , it in- finuates that the one may be attained by our own ftrength , and the other cured without divine affiftance . Our faults , if we have any ...
... present to us . If it teaches that we have virtues to attain and imperfections to be cured , it in- finuates that the one may be attained by our own ftrength , and the other cured without divine affiftance . Our faults , if we have any ...
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... peace , is not to be too tender of our present feelings ; is nobly to make fome facrifice of immediate ease , for the fake of acquiring future future happiness . Defire not opiates , seek not anodynes 104 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED TO.
... peace , is not to be too tender of our present feelings ; is nobly to make fome facrifice of immediate ease , for the fake of acquiring future future happiness . Defire not opiates , seek not anodynes 104 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED TO.
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... present happy ignorance of prac- tifed evil , you would then keep clear of a bondage from which you perceive the older and the wifer do not , because they cannot , commonly emancipate themselves . -- But , fuppofing a young man is so ...
... present happy ignorance of prac- tifed evil , you would then keep clear of a bondage from which you perceive the older and the wifer do not , because they cannot , commonly emancipate themselves . -- But , fuppofing a young man is so ...
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Page 276 - 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 276 - 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 211 - Preacher himself had sometimes forgotten, that the whole duty of man is to fear God, and keep his commandments...
Page 56 - talk of the words" which were commanded under that dispensation, •wken they sit in their house, and •when they walk by the way, and when they lie down, and when they rise up.