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... character and conduct , even our most amiable propensities , under the control of right principle , guided by reason ... characters , he will have conferred a doubtful benefit on a few , and done incalculable hurt to thousands . So also ...
... character and conduct , even our most amiable propensities , under the control of right principle , guided by reason ... characters , he will have conferred a doubtful benefit on a few , and done incalculable hurt to thousands . So also ...
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... character of the natu- ral man ' ( as the Apostle Paul expresses it ) , which is , to become , on the whole , gradually worse , when no superior and purifying principle has been implanted . Some people fancy that a man grows good by ...
... character of the natu- ral man ' ( as the Apostle Paul expresses it ) , which is , to become , on the whole , gradually worse , when no superior and purifying principle has been implanted . Some people fancy that a man grows good by ...
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... character its most Christian , its loftiest , and its grandest features . He must have soared high above the region of ambition , avarice , subservience , and intrigue , in which he lived , as a lawyer , a courtier , and a chancellor ...
... character its most Christian , its loftiest , and its grandest features . He must have soared high above the region of ambition , avarice , subservience , and intrigue , in which he lived , as a lawyer , a courtier , and a chancellor ...
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... character ; only passing through every variety of fortune , from poverty to wealth , and from wealth to poverty -from obscurity to fame , and from fame to infamy - from mediocrity to power , and from power to humiliation - could have ...
... character ; only passing through every variety of fortune , from poverty to wealth , and from wealth to poverty -from obscurity to fame , and from fame to infamy - from mediocrity to power , and from power to humiliation - could have ...
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... character so conspicuous , as William Carey . Wonderful as these effusions of sanctified genius are , they are by no means perfect . Of many , the mechanical execution could be improved by almost any poet of the million . The rhymes are ...
... character so conspicuous , as William Carey . Wonderful as these effusions of sanctified genius are , they are by no means perfect . Of many , the mechanical execution could be improved by almost any poet of the million . The rhymes are ...
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Стр. 36 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Стр. 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Стр. 35 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Стр. 193 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Стр. 34 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Стр. 18 - ... needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Стр. 323 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Стр. 524 - If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians : for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Стр. 35 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Стр. 28 - The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament," which he hoped would escape some of the objections urged against his Hymns.