The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... vanity , be permitted to observe that there is a sense in which the favor she has uniformly experienced is honorable to that public who have conferred it ? Their indulgence has never been purchased by flattery ; their.
... vanity , be permitted to observe that there is a sense in which the favor she has uniformly experienced is honorable to that public who have conferred it ? Their indulgence has never been purchased by flattery ; their.
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... observed any mate- rial reformation at the court end of the town , since the publi- cation of his discourse . Among the many unsuspected but salutary checks to the vanity of a pious writer , it will not be the least , that his very ...
... observed any mate- rial reformation at the court end of the town , since the publi- cation of his discourse . Among the many unsuspected but salutary checks to the vanity of a pious writer , it will not be the least , that his very ...
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... observe them struggling with those passions , and making a progress in their conquest over them , though that progress be impeded by natural infirmity , though it be obstructed by occasional irritation . The triumphant detecter of the ...
... observe them struggling with those passions , and making a progress in their conquest over them , though that progress be impeded by natural infirmity , though it be obstructed by occasional irritation . The triumphant detecter of the ...
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... observation , that to some pagan poets , especially Lucre- tius , these errors supplied atheism with her most powerful arms . But though he allows that enthusiasm is dangerous , he continues to write like one who knows that it is not ...
... observation , that to some pagan poets , especially Lucre- tius , these errors supplied atheism with her most powerful arms . But though he allows that enthusiasm is dangerous , he continues to write like one who knows that it is not ...
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... observe the subserviency of events to his eternal purposes : all this solves difficulties otherwise insuperable , vindicates the divine con- duct , composes the intractable passions , settles the wavering faith , and quickens the too ...
... observe the subserviency of events to his eternal purposes : all this solves difficulties otherwise insuperable , vindicates the divine con- duct , composes the intractable passions , settles the wavering faith , and quickens the too ...
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