The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... possessed . But how is he to ascertain this critical moment of extinc- tion ? His own eyes , always dim in the discernment of his own faults , may have become quite blind . His friends are too timid , or too tender , to hazard the ...
... possessed . But how is he to ascertain this critical moment of extinc- tion ? His own eyes , always dim in the discernment of his own faults , may have become quite blind . His friends are too timid , or too tender , to hazard the ...
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... possesses it , so there is no hypocrisy in recommending a quality because he himself is destitute of it ? But if , through the so frequently alleged imperfection at- tached to humanity , Christian writers do not always attain to the ...
... possesses it , so there is no hypocrisy in recommending a quality because he himself is destitute of it ? But if , through the so frequently alleged imperfection at- tached to humanity , Christian writers do not always attain to the ...
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... possessed , as arguments for adopting their opinions ? Do we infer as a necessary consequence , that their sentiments are sound because their lives were not flagitious ? But though it is an awful possibility , that the same work may at ...
... possessed , as arguments for adopting their opinions ? Do we infer as a necessary consequence , that their sentiments are sound because their lives were not flagitious ? But though it is an awful possibility , that the same work may at ...
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... possess little of the graces which embellish truth , if he cannot adorn it with those charms which , though they add ... possessing it . 22 ON THE WRITERS.
... possess little of the graces which embellish truth , if he cannot adorn it with those charms which , though they add ... possessing it . 22 ON THE WRITERS.
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Hannah More. against infusing a fanatical spirit by not possessing it . He cannot communicate the distemper of which he is not sick . He cautiously avoids it on a double ground . He knows that enthusiasm and superstition are not only ...
Hannah More. against infusing a fanatical spirit by not possessing it . He cannot communicate the distemper of which he is not sick . He cautiously avoids it on a double ground . He knows that enthusiasm and superstition are not only ...
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