The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... religious book might seem to put in the claim of an exempt case ; but does experience prove that the ex- emption is infallible ? The employment is good , the motive is likely to be pure ; the work may be unexceptionable in its tendency ...
... religious book might seem to put in the claim of an exempt case ; but does experience prove that the ex- emption is infallible ? The employment is good , the motive is likely to be pure ; the work may be unexceptionable in its tendency ...
Page 13
... religious exertion , to allow them to work without hope . ( If hope flatters , she at least supports ; thus something is achieved which else would not have been done at all . Again , the timid writer foresees that many objections may be ...
... religious exertion , to allow them to work without hope . ( If hope flatters , she at least supports ; thus something is achieved which else would not have been done at all . Again , the timid writer foresees that many objections may be ...
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... religious writer is sometimes thought worse than other men , because his book was considered as a pledge that he should be better . It was expected that the faults he described he would avoid ; the passions he had blamed he would ...
... religious writer is sometimes thought worse than other men , because his book was considered as a pledge that he should be better . It was expected that the faults he described he would avoid ; the passions he had blamed he would ...
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... religion , may be used by the owner to his hurt ; that he may be so absorbed in it as a business that he may lose sight of his end ; that he may neglect per- sonal while he is advancing public religion ; or be so anxious for the success ...
... religion , may be used by the owner to his hurt ; that he may be so absorbed in it as a business that he may lose sight of his end ; that he may neglect per- sonal while he is advancing public religion ; or be so anxious for the success ...
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... religion , what are we to understand from it , but that in the opinion of the objectors , a man will write the better because he does not feel his subject ; that he will teach religion more safely to others from not hav ing felt its ...
... religion , what are we to understand from it , but that in the opinion of the objectors , a man will write the better because he does not feel his subject ; that he will teach religion more safely to others from not hav ing felt its ...
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