Memoirs of William Stevens, Esq. ...Philanthropic Society, St George's Fields, 1812 - 190 pages |
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... youth is to kill time , as they call it , by literally doing nothing : or by doing what is worse than nothing , indulging in criminal pleasures , which destroy and ruin the constitution both of body and mind . But so did not the ...
... youth is to kill time , as they call it , by literally doing nothing : or by doing what is worse than nothing , indulging in criminal pleasures , which destroy and ruin the constitution both of body and mind . But so did not the ...
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... youth had already begun , both by pre- cept and example , to allure other young men into those paths , from having walked in which he was himself deriving comfort and consolation , in those trying hours of sickness , which left it ...
... youth had already begun , both by pre- cept and example , to allure other young men into those paths , from having walked in which he was himself deriving comfort and consolation , in those trying hours of sickness , which left it ...
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... youth , his mind was deeply im- pressed with pure and unaffected feelings of devo- tion , undebased by gloom or fanaticism , I proceed to shew by a letter from Mr. Stevens to the daughter of Mrs. Randolph , that he was at the same time ...
... youth , his mind was deeply im- pressed with pure and unaffected feelings of devo- tion , undebased by gloom or fanaticism , I proceed to shew by a letter from Mr. Stevens to the daughter of Mrs. Randolph , that he was at the same time ...
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... youth . Both engaged in trade , Mr. Calverley does not appear to have dedicated himself to the same studies with his friend , Mr. Stevens ; but in the studies of a holy life , devotion to God , beneficence and good will to man , they ...
... youth . Both engaged in trade , Mr. Calverley does not appear to have dedicated himself to the same studies with his friend , Mr. Stevens ; but in the studies of a holy life , devotion to God , beneficence and good will to man , they ...
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... youth , whom it had pleased Providence so sorely to visit . Accordingly these two benevolent men purchased £ 40 per annum in the Long Annuities , in the name of the writer of this life , and the father of the young man , as trustees for ...
... youth , whom it had pleased Providence so sorely to visit . Accordingly these two benevolent men purchased £ 40 per annum in the Long Annuities , in the name of the writer of this life , and the father of the young man , as trustees for ...
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