The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... frequently alleged imperfection at- tached to humanity , Christian writers do not always attain to the excellence they suggest , let us not therefore infer that their principles are defective , their aims low , or their practical ...
... frequently alleged imperfection at- tached to humanity , Christian writers do not always attain to the excellence they suggest , let us not therefore infer that their principles are defective , their aims low , or their practical ...
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... frequently make little scruple to take the government of the moral world into our own hands . If we consent to his ruling matter , we reluc- tantly allow that he governs mind . We reason as if we suspected that the passions of men lay ...
... frequently make little scruple to take the government of the moral world into our own hands . If we consent to his ruling matter , we reluc- tantly allow that he governs mind . We reason as if we suspected that the passions of men lay ...
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... frequently occur , yet as it is by means God works , rather than by miracles ; and as the world does not overflow with real piety , what a chaos would this earth become , if God did not permit inferior motives to operate to a certain ...
... frequently occur , yet as it is by means God works , rather than by miracles ; and as the world does not overflow with real piety , what a chaos would this earth become , if God did not permit inferior motives to operate to a certain ...
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... frequently comprise the essence of the Christian temper in some short aphorism , apos- trophe , or definition . The essential spirit of the Christian may be said to be included in this one brief petition of the Christian's prayer , THY ...
... frequently comprise the essence of the Christian temper in some short aphorism , apos- trophe , or definition . The essential spirit of the Christian may be said to be included in this one brief petition of the Christian's prayer , THY ...
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... frequent demand for its exercise and renders every successive call more easy . We read dissertations on this subject , not only with the most entire concurrence of the judgment , but with the most apparent acquiescence of the mind . We ...
... frequent demand for its exercise and renders every successive call more easy . We read dissertations on this subject , not only with the most entire concurrence of the judgment , but with the most apparent acquiescence of the mind . We ...
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