The Book of Good Examples Drawn from Authentic History and Biography: Designed to Illustrate the Beneficial Effects of Virtuous Conduct |
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... asked why he was so favourable to all men , even to those most notoriously wicked ? " Because , " answered he , " good men are won by justice ; the bad by cle- mency . " When some of his minis- ters complained to him on another occasion ...
... asked why he was so favourable to all men , even to those most notoriously wicked ? " Because , " answered he , " good men are won by justice ; the bad by cle- mency . " When some of his minis- ters complained to him on another occasion ...
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... asked why he did not swear at play as well as others ? he answered , that he knew no game worthy of an oath . The same answer he is said to have given at a hunting match . The stag , almost quite spent , crossed a road where a butcher ...
... asked why he did not swear at play as well as others ? he answered , that he knew no game worthy of an oath . The same answer he is said to have given at a hunting match . The stag , almost quite spent , crossed a road where a butcher ...
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... asked him what he had learned ? The boy replied , that would hereafter appear . On this , the father being enraged , beat his son ; who bearing it patiently , and without complaining , said , “ This have I learned - to endure a parent's ...
... asked him what he had learned ? The boy replied , that would hereafter appear . On this , the father being enraged , beat his son ; who bearing it patiently , and without complaining , said , “ This have I learned - to endure a parent's ...
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... asked for the privilege of bringing up the granddaughters of the Marquis de l'Aubespine . As the children grew up , the curate of Champrond had taken charge of their opening faculties , but their education soon required other assistance ...
... asked for the privilege of bringing up the granddaughters of the Marquis de l'Aubespine . As the children grew up , the curate of Champrond had taken charge of their opening faculties , but their education soon required other assistance ...
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... asked a confidential ser- vant of the family for a loan of money : this the man evaded , until he could get the consent of the noble earl , his father , deeming it highly improper to advance the money without his knowledge . When Earl F ...
... asked a confidential ser- vant of the family for a loan of money : this the man evaded , until he could get the consent of the noble earl , his father , deeming it highly improper to advance the money without his knowledge . When Earl F ...
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Page 114 - ... to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject, or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall.
Page 129 - Have you any methodists there?" " No!" " Have you any independents or seceders?" " No, No!" " Why who have you then?" " We don't know those names here. All thai are here are Christians — believers in Christ — men who have overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his testimony.
Page 214 - I told him, I heard the Prince had received a packet from the Queen, and I guessed it...
Page 11 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 113 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation ; but I must confess, that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 113 - Saviour; when he drew to the life his blessed eyes, streaming in tears to Heaven, his voice breathing to God a soft and gentle prayer of pardon on his enemies, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do...
Page 231 - His talents of every kind — powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and in all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to provoke some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. "Hail! and farewell!
Page 113 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect was inconceivable.