The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... motive is likely to be pure ; the work may be unexceptionable in its tendency and useful in its consequences . But is it always beneficial to the writer in the proportion in which he intends it to be profitable to the reader ? Even of ...
... motive is likely to be pure ; the work may be unexceptionable in its tendency and useful in its consequences . But is it always beneficial to the writer in the proportion in which he intends it to be profitable to the reader ? Even of ...
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... motives as are most pure . If they did not feel a little too full of their work , when it was under their hand , it has been said , they Iwould not devote to it the full force of their mind . This anxiety , or rather this absorption ...
... motives as are most pure . If they did not feel a little too full of their work , when it was under their hand , it has been said , they Iwould not devote to it the full force of their mind . This anxiety , or rather this absorption ...
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... motive for attempting it . Is it not therefore a smaller evil that he should a little mag- nify its importance to ... motives of human feelings in the author ought to interfere with those of the reader , who has only to do with the book ...
... motive for attempting it . Is it not therefore a smaller evil that he should a little mag- nify its importance to ... motives of human feelings in the author ought to interfere with those of the reader , who has only to do with the book ...
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... motive may not always secure the humility of the author . Yet modestly to aim at ame- liorating that little portion of it which lies within his imme- diate sphere , is a duty out of which he should not be laughed by wits and ...
... motive may not always secure the humility of the author . Yet modestly to aim at ame- liorating that little portion of it which lies within his imme- diate sphere , is a duty out of which he should not be laughed by wits and ...
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... motives to humility . The solemn dread lest this inconsistency should be produced against him at the last day , is a fresh incentive to higher exertions , stirs him up to augmented vigilance , quickens him to more intense prayer . He ...
... motives to humility . The solemn dread lest this inconsistency should be produced against him at the last day , is a fresh incentive to higher exertions , stirs him up to augmented vigilance , quickens him to more intense prayer . He ...
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