The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Band 1Goodrich, 1827 |
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... less generally ostensible even in the most indifferent au- thors than they were formerly in some of the best . The most self - sufficient writer is at length driven , by the prevailing sense of propriety , to be contented with thinking ...
... less generally ostensible even in the most indifferent au- thors than they were formerly in some of the best . The most self - sufficient writer is at length driven , by the prevailing sense of propriety , to be contented with thinking ...
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... less recommended itself to my mind , as it has had more or less reference to these objects . Considering this world as a scene of much action , and of little comparative knowledge ; not as a stage for exhibition , or a retreat for ...
... less recommended itself to my mind , as it has had more or less reference to these objects . Considering this world as a scene of much action , and of little comparative knowledge ; not as a stage for exhibition , or a retreat for ...
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... less true , Cupid had shot him thro ' and thro ' ; But , vainly speeds the surest dart , Where FASHION's mail defends the heart ; The shaft her cold repulsion found , And fell without the pow'r to wound : For FASHION , with a mother's ...
... less true , Cupid had shot him thro ' and thro ' ; But , vainly speeds the surest dart , Where FASHION's mail defends the heart ; The shaft her cold repulsion found , And fell without the pow'r to wound : For FASHION , with a mother's ...
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... less fell the galling chain , When Zeno prov'd there was no ill in pain ? In vain the sage to smooth its horror tries ; Spartans and Helots see with different eyes ; Their miseries philosophic quirks deride , Slaves groan in pangs ...
... less fell the galling chain , When Zeno prov'd there was no ill in pain ? In vain the sage to smooth its horror tries ; Spartans and Helots see with different eyes ; Their miseries philosophic quirks deride , Slaves groan in pangs ...
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... less the truth to mangle , Than he to clear and disentangle . These short digressions we apply Our author's fame to magnify : She seeks not to bewilder youth , But all is true she gives for truth : And still , to analyze you're able ...
... less the truth to mangle , Than he to clear and disentangle . These short digressions we apply Our author's fame to magnify : She seeks not to bewilder youth , But all is true she gives for truth : And still , to analyze you're able ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 452 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 105 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Seite 185 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.