The Book of Good Examples Drawn from Authentic History and Biography: Designed to Illustrate the Beneficial Effects of Virtuous Conduct |
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... enemy . What wert thou when I took thee to my cabin ? Thy hands were those of a child ; they neither served to nourish nor de- fend thee ; thy soul was in night ; thou knewest nothing ; thou owest me all ! Wilt thou , then , be ...
... enemy . What wert thou when I took thee to my cabin ? Thy hands were those of a child ; they neither served to nourish nor de- fend thee ; thy soul was in night ; thou knewest nothing ; thou owest me all ! Wilt thou , then , be ...
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... enemy , and called for help . " I will not retreat , " said he , " but will endeavour to prevent his doing mischief to other unfortunate persons . Bring an axe and kill him . I will hold him fast , though I know that I am sacrificing my ...
... enemy , and called for help . " I will not retreat , " said he , " but will endeavour to prevent his doing mischief to other unfortunate persons . Bring an axe and kill him . I will hold him fast , though I know that I am sacrificing my ...
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... enemy in politics , gave him to understand that a vacant seat in the Court of Sessions was ready for his acceptance . " No , " said Crosbie , " judges ought to be blameless , superior to corruption , as well in situation as in principle ...
... enemy in politics , gave him to understand that a vacant seat in the Court of Sessions was ready for his acceptance . " No , " said Crosbie , " judges ought to be blameless , superior to corruption , as well in situation as in principle ...
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... English nation to surprise their enemies in such a posture . " Poor Killigrew fell in the action . ROYAL GARDENER . HEN Lysander , the Lacedemoniar general , Cardinal Du Bois How to spend a Saturday Evening Cowper Piety respected.
... English nation to surprise their enemies in such a posture . " Poor Killigrew fell in the action . ROYAL GARDENER . HEN Lysander , the Lacedemoniar general , Cardinal Du Bois How to spend a Saturday Evening Cowper Piety respected.
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... enemy's troops , and who expressed pity and regret at the sight . " Pity not me , " exclaimed the high- spirited chevalier , " I die as a man of honour ought , in the discharge of my duty ; they , indeed , are objects of pity , who ...
... enemy's troops , and who expressed pity and regret at the sight . " Pity not me , " exclaimed the high- spirited chevalier , " I die as a man of honour ought , in the discharge of my duty ; they , indeed , are objects of pity , who ...
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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.