Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... is calculated to comfort the faithful , and to fupport the weak ; not to This remark is taken from Hey's Lectures . fatisfy 1 fatisfy curious and carnal persons . " Charity has received 231 "fits on particular perfons; yet their in- ...
... is calculated to comfort the faithful , and to fupport the weak ; not to This remark is taken from Hey's Lectures . fatisfy 1 fatisfy curious and carnal persons . " Charity has received 231 "fits on particular perfons; yet their in- ...
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... persons . " Charity has received as much injury from extreme refinements and minute fubtiities of expreffion , as myfterious doc- trines have from diffuse explanations , or injudicious and unwarrantable applica- tions . Thus people are ...
... persons . " Charity has received as much injury from extreme refinements and minute fubtiities of expreffion , as myfterious doc- trines have from diffuse explanations , or injudicious and unwarrantable applica- tions . Thus people are ...
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... maiden aunt . But this relax- ation in manners enforces the neceffity of : defending the heart by a yet ftronger horror of vice . Unlefs principle guards the mind , bara bars and bolts cannot protect the person . By filling 330.
... maiden aunt . But this relax- ation in manners enforces the neceffity of : defending the heart by a yet ftronger horror of vice . Unlefs principle guards the mind , bara bars and bolts cannot protect the person . By filling 330.
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... person . By filling a young woman's ideas with fuppofed plots against her honour , you teach her intrigue and cunning , instead of discretion ; and it is very probable , that you may inspire the generally fatal wish of fpreading her net ...
... person . By filling a young woman's ideas with fuppofed plots against her honour , you teach her intrigue and cunning , instead of discretion ; and it is very probable , that you may inspire the generally fatal wish of fpreading her net ...
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Page 248 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 131 - THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft, be, with us all evermore.
Page 145 - I know there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved.
Page 243 - Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, . hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day.
Page 303 - that *' there is a time to weep as well as a " time to laugh, a time to dance, and a *
Page 242 - ... 64 But there are fome of you that believe not. For Jefus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who fhould betray him.
Page 182 - ... which eye hath not feen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 81 - fhall the know-*' ledge >of the Lord cover the earth as
Page 351 - Arabs, like other Orientals, hold that, in such matters, man is saved, not by faith, but by want of faith. They have also a saying not unlike ours— " She partly is to blame who has been tried, He comes too near who comes to be denied.
Page 271 - if any provide not for his own, <£ and efpecially for thofe of his own " houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is