The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... temper which may have assailed him , every temptation to indulge too ardent a wish that his book may procure praise for himself , as well as benefit to his readers . To flatter himself inordinately on this head , as well as in over ...
... temper which may have assailed him , every temptation to indulge too ardent a wish that his book may procure praise for himself , as well as benefit to his readers . To flatter himself inordinately on this head , as well as in over ...
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... temper of his own mind . When duty com- pels him to be severe against any false opinion , or wrong prac tice , he will be cautious not to mix with his just censure any feeling of disdain , any sentiment of indignation , against any ...
... temper of his own mind . When duty com- pels him to be severe against any false opinion , or wrong prac tice , he will be cautious not to mix with his just censure any feeling of disdain , any sentiment of indignation , against any ...
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... temper , inequality of mind , a heart , though fearing to offend God , yet not sufficiently dead to the world ... tempers he had exposed he would have subdued . Perhaps it will commonly be found that the reader had expected too much and ...
... temper , inequality of mind , a heart , though fearing to offend God , yet not sufficiently dead to the world ... tempers he had exposed he would have subdued . Perhaps it will commonly be found that the reader had expected too much and ...
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... temper of which he has forcibly exposed the turpitude to the conviction of others . There is , however , no personal reason which could ever justify his holding out an inferior standard . If there is any point in which he eminently ...
... temper of which he has forcibly exposed the turpitude to the conviction of others . There is , however , no personal reason which could ever justify his holding out an inferior standard . If there is any point in which he eminently ...
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... temper . Yet his reputation might suffer in another way ; for if the critic could hear these humbling confessions of the writers in question , he would be ready to conclude that they were " sin- ners above all the Galileans . " Whereas ...
... temper . Yet his reputation might suffer in another way ; for if the critic could hear these humbling confessions of the writers in question , he would be ready to conclude that they were " sin- ners above all the Galileans . " Whereas ...
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