Ostentation and Liberality: A Tale, Volume 2

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William Darton and Son, 1821
 

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Page 126 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 162 - ... hither, had I not dissuaded him. My only hope now is, that it will exhaust itself before my constitution is exhausted ; but the Lord's will be done. I could wish to live to finish the New Testament, and I should also be happy to see a little church raised up in Ava, as there has been in Rangoon. But the ways of God are not as the ways of man.
Page 216 - There is in virtue sure a hidden charm. To force esteem, and envy to disarm.
Page 123 - ... can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there.

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