The Posthumous Works of the Late Learned and Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D.: In Two Volumes. Compiled from Papers in Possession of His Immediate Successors:T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand; and J. Bew, Pater-Noster Row., 1779 - 306 pages |
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... she has a poetical turn too , I wish only it were as magnetically turned on heaven , as her fifter's was , I am in hopes of it , for she is truly virtuous . Forgive a father to a friend if on a sudden he doze a little . Your loving ...
... she has a poetical turn too , I wish only it were as magnetically turned on heaven , as her fifter's was , I am in hopes of it , for she is truly virtuous . Forgive a father to a friend if on a sudden he doze a little . Your loving ...
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... She was fo dear to my wife and me , being indeed like a fifter in the family , that we are both very fenfibly affected with the goodness of God herein , and defire you , dear Sir , would join with us in acknowledging it . Sir , I am ...
... She was fo dear to my wife and me , being indeed like a fifter in the family , that we are both very fenfibly affected with the goodness of God herein , and defire you , dear Sir , would join with us in acknowledging it . Sir , I am ...
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... She would have had a dying bed all wakeful with praise and love . And another expired with these words , " Bleffed Jefus , I am thine , and thou art all in all to me , and to thee I come ; " and , having fo faid , fhe fell asleep . One ...
... She would have had a dying bed all wakeful with praise and love . And another expired with these words , " Bleffed Jefus , I am thine , and thou art all in all to me , and to thee I come ; " and , having fo faid , fhe fell asleep . One ...
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... she will be in great danger , it will be imputed to me , and my own heart will not wholly acquit me . But , alas ! whither am I running , and where is the letter to be of which this is the preface . Re- member I member I owed an excufe ...
... she will be in great danger , it will be imputed to me , and my own heart will not wholly acquit me . But , alas ! whither am I running , and where is the letter to be of which this is the preface . Re- member I member I owed an excufe ...
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... she has faid to you to induce you to use some expreffions in your letter . But you fee by this , how little my honour , as you exprefs yourfelf , can be really touched by her difficulties , whatever they be : fince she has not thought ...
... she has faid to you to induce you to use some expreffions in your letter . But you fee by this , how little my honour , as you exprefs yourfelf , can be really touched by her difficulties , whatever they be : fince she has not thought ...
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Page 274 - And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page 280 - For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While 'we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
Page 79 - I am this day to have the privilege of addressing you, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courtesy and attention in listening to me.
Page 242 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 232 - The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
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Page 164 - ... he would choose to make use of your style. If what I have said seems to have no weight with you, yet you cannot be ignorant what a load of scandal lies on the dissenters, only for their imagined aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says : "So far hath schism...
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