The Words of Hannah More ...Harper & brothers, 1836 |
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... thought dry and dull , raise a sensation in his mind not unlike that which a vain beauty feels in tricking out her person ? May he not , by too much confidence in his own powers , be blind to errors obvious to all but himself ; or else ...
... thought dry and dull , raise a sensation in his mind not unlike that which a vain beauty feels in tricking out her person ? May he not , by too much confidence in his own powers , be blind to errors obvious to all but himself ; or else ...
Page 13
... thought which may have stolen upon him while writing , every evil 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 ...
... thought which may have stolen upon him while writing , every evil 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 ...
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... thought of shrinking from the boldest avowal of every truth , or of withholding the most powerful enforcement to the practice of every virtue . He is apprehensive lest , on the one hand , when he assails vice or error , he should appear ...
... thought of shrinking from the boldest avowal of every truth , or of withholding the most powerful enforcement to the practice of every virtue . He is apprehensive lest , on the one hand , when he assails vice or error , he should appear ...
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... thought a better man than Moses , who heroically perpetuated the memory of that offence which was an inhibition to his enter- ing the land of promise , nor than David , the recorder of his own sins , the enormity of which could only be ...
... thought a better man than Moses , who heroically perpetuated the memory of that offence which was an inhibition to his enter- ing the land of promise , nor than David , the recorder of his own sins , the enormity of which could only be ...
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... how else to dispose of them . For instance : we ascribe to him power and wisdom in the creation of the world , while we talk as if we thought the VOL . III . 2 keeping it in order might be effected by an inferior ON PROVIDENCE . 25.
... how else to dispose of them . For instance : we ascribe to him power and wisdom in the creation of the world , while we talk as if we thought the VOL . III . 2 keeping it in order might be effected by an inferior ON PROVIDENCE . 25.
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