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... heart of mine Ne'er felt thy force , O Charity divine ! An empty shadow , science would be found , My knowledge ignorance , my wit a sound . H. MORE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR WILLIAMS AND SMITH , STATIONER's - court . By R. Tilling ...
... heart of mine Ne'er felt thy force , O Charity divine ! An empty shadow , science would be found , My knowledge ignorance , my wit a sound . H. MORE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR WILLIAMS AND SMITH , STATIONER's - court . By R. Tilling ...
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... heart , whenever he was favoured by a call from the youth . On one of these occasions , and imme- diately after the time we closed our last chapter , Sir Charles found Roger seated at his table , with his large family Bible before him ...
... heart , whenever he was favoured by a call from the youth . On one of these occasions , and imme- diately after the time we closed our last chapter , Sir Charles found Roger seated at his table , with his large family Bible before him ...
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... still more heartily by the hand , and assured him , that return when he would , he might depend upon his returning with a heart well disposed towards him , and his family . CHAP . III . The Character of Mr. D --- TALENTS IMPROVED . 35.
... still more heartily by the hand , and assured him , that return when he would , he might depend upon his returning with a heart well disposed towards him , and his family . CHAP . III . The Character of Mr. D --- TALENTS IMPROVED . 35.
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... heart and life , but nothing but the grace of God , can give that to any creature under heaven . As to binding poor folks by the tie of gratitude ; why , sir , you know ( saving your pre- sence ) nothing at all about poor folks . Grati ...
... heart and life , but nothing but the grace of God , can give that to any creature under heaven . As to binding poor folks by the tie of gratitude ; why , sir , you know ( saving your pre- sence ) nothing at all about poor folks . Grati ...
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... of that all - wise Being , who has the hearts of all in his hands , and who " ordereth every thing according to the wise counsel of his infinite under- standing . " CHAP . V. Sir Charles makes Proposals on a Matter 56 TALENTS IMPROVED .
... of that all - wise Being , who has the hearts of all in his hands , and who " ordereth every thing according to the wise counsel of his infinite under- standing . " CHAP . V. Sir Charles makes Proposals on a Matter 56 TALENTS IMPROVED .
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Page 204 - LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things ; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 133 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 161 - O LORD, from whom all good things do come ; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 211 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 253 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 204 - Tyrius argues, agreeably to what was said above, that "if skill in the professions and sciences is insinuated into men's minds by a divine influence, we can much less imagine that a thing so much more excellent as virtue is, can be the work of any mortal art; for strange must be the notion that we have of God, to think that he is liberal and free in matters of less moment, and sparing in the greatest.
Page 42 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 61 - So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine.
Page 220 - ... for the things done in the body, whether they have been good or evil.
Page 194 - Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them...