The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 2Goodrich, 1827 |
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... fear impels man to seek the all the extravagant exploits recorded in the protection , and the blessing of laws , so from fabulous of antiquity . the experience of that protection , and the ages So deep is the reverential awe which man ...
... fear impels man to seek the all the extravagant exploits recorded in the protection , and the blessing of laws , so from fabulous of antiquity . the experience of that protection , and the ages So deep is the reverential awe which man ...
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... Fear God - Honour the king . This public spirit seems to have existed so long as there were any objects of foreign anbition remaining , and so long as any sense was left of foreign danger . Even in the midst of unlawful and unrelenting ...
... Fear God - Honour the king . This public spirit seems to have existed so long as there were any objects of foreign anbition remaining , and so long as any sense was left of foreign danger . Even in the midst of unlawful and unrelenting ...
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... fear of the gods ; de- most intolerable domestic yoke . Rome had claring , that what others held to be an ob- no more the spirit to make any faint strug- ject of disgrace , he believed to be the very gle for liberty after the death of ...
... fear of the gods ; de- most intolerable domestic yoke . Rome had claring , that what others held to be an ob- no more the spirit to make any faint strug- ject of disgrace , he believed to be the very gle for liberty after the death of ...
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... fear , he and not only will the corruptions of pagan- does not uniformly accomplish the other , ism be converted into instruction , by being that of writing without hatred ; at least , contrasted with the opposite Christian gra- neither ...
... fear , he and not only will the corruptions of pagan- does not uniformly accomplish the other , ism be converted into instruction , by being that of writing without hatred ; at least , contrasted with the opposite Christian gra- neither ...
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... fear , prepared an ark , ' & c . ple which is here assumed , will be found By faith , Moses forsook Egypt , not ... fears , but , above all , his love , as to raise by faith , too generally makes the sense of him above the low ...
... fear , prepared an ark , ' & c . ple which is here assumed , will be found By faith , Moses forsook Egypt , not ... fears , but , above all , his love , as to raise by faith , too generally makes the sense of him above the low ...
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Page 76 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
Page 280 - 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 ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Page 47 - Not that I speak in respect of want : for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Page 315 - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
Page 132 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 416 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 275 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 219 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 421 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 20 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...