The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... duty of this art , the Author of the following pages ventures to insist , even in contradiction to this high authority , that there is , in writing , an art still more rare , still more slowly learned , still more reluctantly adopted ...
... duty of this art , the Author of the following pages ventures to insist , even in contradiction to this high authority , that there is , in writing , an art still more rare , still more slowly learned , still more reluctantly adopted ...
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... duty to conduct his reader to the highest approach to excellence . Independent of his general defects , he is at least carefully keeping out of sight every vain thought which may have stolen upon him while writing , every evil temper ...
... duty to conduct his reader to the highest approach to excellence . Independent of his general defects , he is at least carefully keeping out of sight every vain thought which may have stolen upon him while writing , every evil temper ...
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... duty out of which he should not be laughed by wits and epigrammatists . Instead of indulging unfound- ed hopes of improbable effects , the Christian writer will be humbled at the mortifying reflection , what great and exten- sive evil ...
... duty out of which he should not be laughed by wits and epigrammatists . Instead of indulging unfound- ed hopes of improbable effects , the Christian writer will be humbled at the mortifying reflection , what great and exten- sive evil ...
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... duty com- pels him to be severe against any false opinion , or wrong prac tice , he will be cautious not to mix with his just censure any feeling of disdain , any sentiment of indignation , against any individual whom he may bear in ...
... duty com- pels him to be severe against any false opinion , or wrong prac tice , he will be cautious not to mix with his just censure any feeling of disdain , any sentiment of indignation , against any individual whom he may bear in ...
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... duty to direct his attacks . Some temptation presses him , some infirmity cleaves to him . These unsubdued frailties prove that he is a man , but they do not prove that he is a hypocrite . The truth is , the religious writer is ...
... duty to direct his attacks . Some temptation presses him , some infirmity cleaves to him . These unsubdued frailties prove that he is a man , but they do not prove that he is a hypocrite . The truth is , the religious writer is ...
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