The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Band 1Goodrich, 1827 |
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... sense of propriety , to be contented with thinking himself the prime genius of the age ; but he seldom ventures to tell you that he thinks So Vanity is compelled to acquire or to assume a bet- ter taste . That spirit of independence ...
... sense of propriety , to be contented with thinking himself the prime genius of the age ; but he seldom ventures to tell you that he thinks So Vanity is compelled to acquire or to assume a bet- ter taste . That spirit of independence ...
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... sense and Punch's wit . Not more Narcissus long'd to embrace The watery mirror's shadowy face ; Not more Pygmalion long'd to claim Th ' unconscious object of his flame ; Than long'd the enamour'd legislator To purchase this delightful ...
... sense and Punch's wit . Not more Narcissus long'd to embrace The watery mirror's shadowy face ; Not more Pygmalion long'd to claim Th ' unconscious object of his flame ; Than long'd the enamour'd legislator To purchase this delightful ...
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... sense and worth , which every hour Enlarge Affection's growing power ; Of worth , not emulous of praise , Of sense , not kept for gala days , O ! in the highest , happiest lot , By woman be it ne'er forgot , That human life's no ...
... sense and worth , which every hour Enlarge Affection's growing power ; Of worth , not emulous of praise , Of sense , not kept for gala days , O ! in the highest , happiest lot , By woman be it ne'er forgot , That human life's no ...
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... sense , of faculties the best , Inspire and regulate the rest . O ! how unlike the wit that fell , RAMBOUILLET ! at thy quaint hotel ; Where point , and turn , and equivoque Distorted every word they spoke ! All so intolerably bright ...
... sense , of faculties the best , Inspire and regulate the rest . O ! how unlike the wit that fell , RAMBOUILLET ! at thy quaint hotel ; Where point , and turn , and equivoque Distorted every word they spoke ! All so intolerably bright ...
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... sense and learning in alliance , To search the depths , and thence produce What tends to practice and to use . And next in value we shall find What mends the taste and forms the mind . If high those truths in estimation , Whose search ...
... sense and learning in alliance , To search the depths , and thence produce What tends to practice and to use . And next in value we shall find What mends the taste and forms the mind . If high those truths in estimation , Whose search ...
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Belshazzar Betty Bible blessing Bragwell called Chaldea character charity Christ Christian church comfort corrupt Darius daugh daughters delight divine doctrine duty Eliab eternal ev'ry evil exer eyes faith fancy Fantom father favour fear feel give glory Gospel grace habit hand happiness hear heart heaven holy honour hope human humble indulgence irreligion Jack Jack Weston kind king knew labour less ligion live look Lord master ment mercy mind moral nature ness never night object Parley passion perhaps Pharnaces Philistia piety pleasure poor pow'r praise pray prayer principle religion religious Scripture sense shillings Simpson sins sober soul spirit Stock Sunday sure taste temper thee thing thou thought tion Tom Price Tommy Williams true truth Twas vanity virtue woman word worldly Worthy young youth
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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.