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Page iii
... spirit of independence also , which has , in many respects , impressed so mischievous a stamp on the public character , has , perhaps , helped to correct the style of prefaces and dedications . Literary patronage is so much shorn of its ...
... spirit of independence also , which has , in many respects , impressed so mischievous a stamp on the public character , has , perhaps , helped to correct the style of prefaces and dedications . Literary patronage is so much shorn of its ...
Page iv
... spirit of living literature to observe , that our modesty would revolt , putting our sense and our religion out of the question , were a modern poet to offer even an imperial patron to pick and choose his lodging among the ...
... spirit of living literature to observe , that our modesty would revolt , putting our sense and our religion out of the question , were a modern poet to offer even an imperial patron to pick and choose his lodging among the ...
Page v
... spirit which he thought fixed and essential , has evaporated ; many of the ideas which he imposed not only on his reader , but on himself , for originals , more reading and more observation compel him to restore to their owners . And ...
... spirit which he thought fixed and essential , has evaporated ; many of the ideas which he imposed not only on his reader , but on himself , for originals , more reading and more observation compel him to restore to their owners . And ...
Page viii
... spirit with which the author writes . These are some of the considerations , which , while my gratitude has been excited by the favorable reception of my various attempts , have helped to correct that vanity which is so easily kindled ...
... spirit with which the author writes . These are some of the considerations , which , while my gratitude has been excited by the favorable reception of my various attempts , have helped to correct that vanity which is so easily kindled ...
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... spirits , that , long before he got home , he had lost every trace of ill - humor . " Well , Mr. Fantom , ' said he , gayly , as he opened the door , " now do tell me how you could possibly refuse going to help me to put out the fire at ...
... spirits , that , long before he got home , he had lost every trace of ill - humor . " Well , Mr. Fantom , ' said he , gayly , as he opened the door , " now do tell me how you could possibly refuse going to help me to put out the fire at ...
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Page 45 - You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Page 161 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 187 - So saying, he slipped a crown into his hand, and rode off. " Surely," said the shepherd, " ' goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life,' " as he gave the money to his wife when he got home at night.
Page 193 - Art Thou He that cometh or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Page 257 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 385 - Tis more than mortal man can bear. "How glorious is the rich man's state! His house so fine, his wealth so great! Heaven is unjust, you must agree; Why all to him? Why none to me? "In...
Page 185 - The rich and the poor meet together : the Lord is the Maker of them all.
Page 267 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 266 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 103 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.