Miscellanies, Volume 2Hilliard, Gray, 1836 |
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... mind , and were never afterwards forgotten . On a review of the day , she convinced herself that the renewed vigor of her piety was not so much owing to the satisfaction she had had in seeing Helena in a state of recovery , as in the ...
... mind , and were never afterwards forgotten . On a review of the day , she convinced herself that the renewed vigor of her piety was not so much owing to the satisfaction she had had in seeing Helena in a state of recovery , as in the ...
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... mind to any em- ployment . The unusual quietness of the streets made her look out . Not a human being was visible , none of the hum of a city was to be heard , and the evening sun shone upon the gables , and flung the shadows from the ...
... mind to any em- ployment . The unusual quietness of the streets made her look out . Not a human being was visible , none of the hum of a city was to be heard , and the evening sun shone upon the gables , and flung the shadows from the ...
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... mind , so palpably true were the workings of her affections in these cases , that she felt relieved of much anxiety about herself . She felt she might trust herself , in a greater measure , to her own impulses , and relinquish some of ...
... mind , so palpably true were the workings of her affections in these cases , that she felt relieved of much anxiety about herself . She felt she might trust herself , in a greater measure , to her own impulses , and relinquish some of ...
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... mind for the interview with her former friend , whom she could not have conceived she could ever meet with so little confidence as at present . She had just said to Helena , " I can but return , if she fails to satisfy me . I have no ...
... mind for the interview with her former friend , whom she could not have conceived she could ever meet with so little confidence as at present . She had just said to Helena , " I can but return , if she fails to satisfy me . I have no ...
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... mind would prey upon itself from the exclusion of a variety of sensible objects . When his jailer had left him , the first employment of the prisoner was to examine the bounds of his dwelling . No possibility of escape existed , even by ...
... mind would prey upon itself from the exclusion of a variety of sensible objects . When his jailer had left him , the first employment of the prisoner was to examine the bounds of his dwelling . No possibility of escape existed , even by ...
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Page 223 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Page 224 - Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Page 386 - What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there ! In October, 1692, one of Wenham complained of mrs.
Page 94 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, 1 Against foul fiends to aid us militant!
Page 100 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 94 - O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us...
Page 330 - It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity? — Never? 82. Never? — Let me not think this blasphemy, All Merciful! Education has its goal, in the race, no less than in the individual. That which is educated is educated for a purpose.
Page 236 - I told him that weed contained better arguments for the Being and Attributes of God than all his metaphysics. Clarke confessed it to be so ; but alleged for himself, that since such philosophers as Hobbes and Spinoza had made use of those kinds of subtilties against, he thought it proper to show that the like way of reasoning might be made better use of on the side of religion ; which reason or excuse I allowed to be not inconsiderable.
Page 116 - Putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question, every human creature is endowed with talents (or his nature involves principles) which, if rightly directed, would shew him to be apt, adroit, intelligent, and acute, in the walk for which his organization especially fitted him.
Page 349 - disgusted at the subject" he proposes to be debated in our future correspondence. It does not "terrify me" to hear, that a person whom I sincerely love, and for whose character I have the truest regard, has entertained some doubts, which he cannot entirely get over, concerning a book which his earliest instructors recommended to him as the word of God. It is certainly the duty of every rational creature to bring his religion to the strictest test, and to retain or reject the faith in which he has...