The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... true Greatness 114 CHAP . XIV . On Retirement 125 · CHAP . XV . Dangers and Advantages of Retirement 136 CHAP . XVI . An Inquiry why some good sort of People are not better 143 CHAP . XVII . Page . continued The Inquiry why.
... true Greatness 114 CHAP . XIV . On Retirement 125 · CHAP . XV . Dangers and Advantages of Retirement 136 CHAP . XVI . An Inquiry why some good sort of People are not better 143 CHAP . XVII . Page . continued The Inquiry why.
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... better , Thoughts respectfully suggested to good sort of People 150 • CHAP . XVIII . 161 CHAP . XIX . On Habits 170 CHAP . XX . On the Inconsistency of Christians with Christianity 182 CHAP . XXI . Expostulation with the Inconsistent ...
... better , Thoughts respectfully suggested to good sort of People 150 • CHAP . XVIII . 161 CHAP . XIX . On Habits 170 CHAP . XX . On the Inconsistency of Christians with Christianity 182 CHAP . XXI . Expostulation with the Inconsistent ...
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... better than he is ; for whatever be the faults of his own character , it is his bounden duty to conduct his reader to the highest approach to excellence . Independent of his general defects , he is at least carefully keeping out of ...
... better than he is ; for whatever be the faults of his own character , it is his bounden duty to conduct his reader to the highest approach to excellence . Independent of his general defects , he is at least carefully keeping out of ...
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... better . It was expected that the faults he described he would avoid ; the passions he had blamed he would suppress ; the tempers he had exposed he would have subdued . Perhaps it will commonly be found that the reader had expected too ...
... better . It was expected that the faults he described he would avoid ; the passions he had blamed he would suppress ; the tempers he had exposed he would have subdued . Perhaps it will commonly be found that the reader had expected too ...
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... better than he really is , by the high tone of piety in his composi- tions , or of making others worse by lowering that tone in or- der to bring his professions nearer to the level of his life . Perhaps the most humiliating moment he ...
... better than he really is , by the high tone of piety in his composi- tions , or of making others worse by lowering that tone in or- der to bring his professions nearer to the level of his life . Perhaps the most humiliating moment he ...
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