The Letters of the Late William Cowper to His Friends, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 |
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... hope when it is built upon presumption ? To use the most holy name in the universe for no purpose , or a bad one , contrary to his own express commandment ; to pass the day , and the succeeding days , weeks , and months , and years ...
... hope when it is built upon presumption ? To use the most holy name in the universe for no purpose , or a bad one , contrary to his own express commandment ; to pass the day , and the succeeding days , weeks , and months , and years ...
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... hope the number will increase . I am sure it cannot easily be diminished . Poor ! I have heard the whole of his history , and can only lament what I am sure I can make no apology for . Two of my friends have been cut off , during my ...
... hope the number will increase . I am sure it cannot easily be diminished . Poor ! I have heard the whole of his history , and can only lament what I am sure I can make no apology for . Two of my friends have been cut off , during my ...
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... hope for in this life , while these were overtaken by the great arrest , unawakened , unrepenting , and every way unprepared for it ? His infinite wisdom , to whose infinite mercy owe it all , can solve these questions , and none beside ...
... hope for in this life , while these were overtaken by the great arrest , unawakened , unrepenting , and every way unprepared for it ? His infinite wisdom , to whose infinite mercy owe it all , can solve these questions , and none beside ...
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... hope it is not necessary for salvation , to undergo the same afflictions that I have undergone . No ! my dear Cousin . God deals with his children as a merciful father ; he does not , as he himself tells us , afflict willingly the sons ...
... hope it is not necessary for salvation , to undergo the same afflictions that I have undergone . No ! my dear Cousin . God deals with his children as a merciful father ; he does not , as he himself tells us , afflict willingly the sons ...
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... hope I shall never give quarter to any thing that appears in the shape of sullenness , or self - consequence , hereafter . Alas ! if my best Friend , who laid down his life for me , were to remember all the instances in which I have ...
... hope I shall never give quarter to any thing that appears in the shape of sullenness , or self - consequence , hereafter . Alas ! if my best Friend , who laid down his life for me , were to remember all the instances in which I have ...
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acquaintance Æsop affectionately affliction agreeable Alban's amuse answer April 18 Astrotheology attend believe blessing Bristol spring character Christ Christian comfort converse COWPER creature dear Cousin DEAR FRIEND DEAR JOE desire divine doubt effect esteem expect faith favour feel friendship furnish give glad grace happy hear heart hereafter holy honour hope Huntingdon Jesus JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL judgment July 16 labour lace-makers LADY HESKETH least letter live Lord March 14 matter mean mercy mind mother natural never obliged occasion Olney opinion peace perhaps pleased pleasure Poems poor pray present proof reason received recollect remember respect river Ouse Saviour Scripture seems silence soul Southampton spirit suppose sure taste thank thing thought Tibullus tion truth verse W. C. TO JOSEPH W. C. TO LADY WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write
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Page 47 - ... twice every day, and from twelve to three we separate and amuse ourselves as we please. During that interval I either read in my own apartment, or walk or ride, or work in the garden. We seldom sit an hour after dinner, but, if the weather permits, adjourn to the garden, where, with Mrs. Unwin and her son, I have generally the pleasure of religious conversation till teatime.
Page 75 - It is like that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the. Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
Page 38 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Page 155 - ... now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have...
Page 120 - Though, even in this respect, his treatment of us depends upon what he meets with at our hands ; if we use him well, and listen to his admonitions, he is a friend indeed ; but otherwise the worst of enemies, who takes from us daily something that we valued, and gives us nothing better in its stead.
Page 18 - Two of my friends have been cut off, during my illness, in the midst of such a life as it is frightful to reflect upon ; and here am I, in better health and spirits than I can almost remember to have enjoyed before, after having spout months in the apprehension of instant death.
Page 155 - ... tis only her plan to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production on a new construction...
Page 12 - ... redemption of man, and the resurrection of man, the three cardinal articles of our religion, are such as human ingenuity could never have invented, therefore they must be divine ; the other argument is this. If the prophecies have been fulfilled (of which there is abundant demonstration) the Scripture must be the word of God, and if the Scripture is the word of God, Christianity must be true.
Page 117 - ... with which I thought I had sufficiently secured the window, and which I preferred to any other sort of blind, because it admitted plenty of air. From thence I hastened to the kitchen, where I saw the redoubtable Thomas Freeman, who told me, that having seen her, just after she...
Page 73 - I would recommend it to you to follow my example. You will presently qualify yourself for the task ; and may not only amuse yourself at home, but may even exercise your skill in mending the church windows ; which, as it would save money to the parish, would conduce, together with your other ministerial accomplishments, to make you extremely popular in the place. I have eight pair of tame pigeons.