The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 1Goodrich, 1827 |
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... Religion , Chap . IV . - Periodical Religion , Chap . V. - Prayer , 444 448 452 Chap . VI . Cultivation of a Devotional Spirit , 456 Chap . VII . - The Love of God , 459 463 Chap . VIII - The Hand of God to be acknowledged in the daily ...
... Religion , Chap . IV . - Periodical Religion , Chap . V. - Prayer , 444 448 452 Chap . VI . Cultivation of a Devotional Spirit , 456 Chap . VII . - The Love of God , 459 463 Chap . VIII - The Hand of God to be acknowledged in the daily ...
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... Religion of the Fashionable World , 286 HYMNS . Chap . I. - Decline of Christianity shown by a Comparative View of the Religion of the Great in preceding ages , 289 BALLADS . The True Heroes : or , the Noble Army of Mar- tyrs , A ...
... Religion of the Fashionable World , 286 HYMNS . Chap . I. - Decline of Christianity shown by a Comparative View of the Religion of the Great in preceding ages , 289 BALLADS . The True Heroes : or , the Noble Army of Mar- tyrs , A ...
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... Religion - The Necessity and Duty of Early Instruction shown by analogy with human learning , 345 Chap . XVIII - On ... Religion , 444 Chap . IV . - Periodical Religion , 448 452 356 Chap . VI . Cultivation of a Devotional Spirit , 456 ...
... Religion - The Necessity and Duty of Early Instruction shown by analogy with human learning , 345 Chap . XVIII - On ... Religion , 444 Chap . IV . - Periodical Religion , 448 452 356 Chap . VI . Cultivation of a Devotional Spirit , 456 ...
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... religious yourself , by asking how we well , that those who are most exposed to shall keep others in order without religion . temptation stand most in need of prayer ; For , believe me , Mr. Bragwell , there is no now there are few ...
... religious yourself , by asking how we well , that those who are most exposed to shall keep others in order without religion . temptation stand most in need of prayer ; For , believe me , Mr. Bragwell , there is no now there are few ...
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... religion , and was always ready to testify his regard to it by drinking church and king . On this Mr. Worthy remarked , Mr. Worthy was glad to get out of this that he was afraid that too many contented scene ; and seeing that his friend ...
... religion , and was always ready to testify his regard to it by drinking church and king . On this Mr. Worthy remarked , Mr. Worthy was glad to get out of this that he was afraid that too many contented scene ; and seeing that his friend ...
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Page 111 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 140 - Thank God, neither I nor my family can be said to break the seventh commandment. Worthy. Here again, remember how Christ himself hath said, " Whoso looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Page 452 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 401 - Give alms of thy goods, and never turn thy face from any poor man ; and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee.
Page 39 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 105 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 185 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 341 - They should be therefore trained with a view to these several conditions, and be furnished with a stock of ideas and principles, and qualifications and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated, as occasion may demand, to each of these respective situations. For though the arts which merely embellish life must claim admiration, yet when a man of sense comes to marry it is a companion he wants, and not an artist.
Page 277 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day, hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time ; and the week that hath been so begun, hath been blessed and prosperous to me...
Page 134 - But it was in vain to speak ; for his daughters constantly stopped his mouth by a favourite saying of theirs, which equally indicated affectation and vulgarity — that it was better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Soon after dinner, the women went out to their several employments, and Mr. Worthy, being left alone with his guest, the following discourse took place.