The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. |
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... given by an old friend of my father , who was a man in power , that if my inclination led me to the church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur ...
... given by an old friend of my father , who was a man in power , that if my inclination led me to the church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur ...
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... given to be a friend , and now bending over the same while writhing in the agonies of death , whom the same chance was on the point of taking away . Such is the misery , yet such is the delight of cam- paigning ; and , in this manner ...
... given to be a friend , and now bending over the same while writhing in the agonies of death , whom the same chance was on the point of taking away . Such is the misery , yet such is the delight of cam- paigning ; and , in this manner ...
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... given me such a disgust , from his detail of the absurdities and horrors with which he represented it to abound , that I wanted courage to take it up ; and I almost , as it were , instinctively shrunk from it , regarding it with the ...
... given me such a disgust , from his detail of the absurdities and horrors with which he represented it to abound , that I wanted courage to take it up ; and I almost , as it were , instinctively shrunk from it , regarding it with the ...
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... given them life , but of her to whose species they belong , adhering to the peculiarities of the parent , without copying any of the habits of the nurse . Now , it is Reason that leads us to conceive from the miseries which many of the ...
... given them life , but of her to whose species they belong , adhering to the peculiarities of the parent , without copying any of the habits of the nurse . Now , it is Reason that leads us to conceive from the miseries which many of the ...
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... given of their several powers and actions , was sufficient to show that my host was no little mechanic , and that he could better contrive instruments for sowing , threshing , and grinding corn , than im- prove the methods of growing it ...
... given of their several powers and actions , was sufficient to show that my host was no little mechanic , and that he could better contrive instruments for sowing , threshing , and grinding corn , than im- prove the methods of growing it ...
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Page 130 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 387 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 228 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 139 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 128 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 136 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 387 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 139 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 233 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.