Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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Hannah More. who retire on no other principle but to escape trouble without turning their leisure to the benefits it is calculated to impart , are happy only on the low condition of being useless . If we retire upon the motive of " Soul ...
Hannah More. who retire on no other principle but to escape trouble without turning their leisure to the benefits it is calculated to impart , are happy only on the low condition of being useless . If we retire upon the motive of " Soul ...
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... turn from fub . jects of grateful panegyric to those presented to us by the fame clafs of fociety for ani- madverfion . With regret we take leave of fcenes enriched and dignified by the benefi- cial presence and exertions of their lords ...
... turn from fub . jects of grateful panegyric to those presented to us by the fame clafs of fociety for ani- madverfion . With regret we take leave of fcenes enriched and dignified by the benefi- cial presence and exertions of their lords ...
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... turn by reprefenting religion to be dull . They are adopted under the fpecious notion of being a relief from more fevere employments ; whereas others lefs poignant would answer the end better , and exhaust the spirits lefs . If the ...
... turn by reprefenting religion to be dull . They are adopted under the fpecious notion of being a relief from more fevere employments ; whereas others lefs poignant would answer the end better , and exhaust the spirits lefs . If the ...
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... turn into contemplative life is no improvement , if a gay frivolity is only transformed into a dull vacuity . In the world we were not truly active if we did little good ; in retirement we are not \ con- templative , if contemplation is ...
... turn into contemplative life is no improvement , if a gay frivolity is only transformed into a dull vacuity . In the world we were not truly active if we did little good ; in retirement we are not \ con- templative , if contemplation is ...
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... turn our faces than to withdraw our af fections . Secluded perfons are fometimes lefs care- ful to turn to profit small parcels of time , which , when put together , make no incon- fiderable fund . Reckoning that they have an indefinite ...
... turn our faces than to withdraw our af fections . Secluded perfons are fometimes lefs care- ful to turn to profit small parcels of time , which , when put together , make no incon- fiderable fund . Reckoning that they have an indefinite ...
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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.