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... speaking . " It looks as if it pro- ceeded from a good habit , " said he , “ and though I may now and then be deceived by it , yet it has not often happened to me to be So. Whereas , if a man accosts me with an idle , dissolute , vulgar ...
... speaking . " It looks as if it pro- ceeded from a good habit , " said he , “ and though I may now and then be deceived by it , yet it has not often happened to me to be So. Whereas , if a man accosts me with an idle , dissolute , vulgar ...
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... speak with reverence , for it was di- vine Providence overruled all that , you know , sir , and I do not presume to make comparisons . Besides , sir , my employment has been particularly honoured - Moses was a shepherd in the plains of ...
... speak with reverence , for it was di- vine Providence overruled all that , you know , sir , and I do not presume to make comparisons . Besides , sir , my employment has been particularly honoured - Moses was a shepherd in the plains of ...
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... speak out . " " " Tis what I wish , " said the gentle- man . " Then , sir , " resumed the shepherd , " I doubt , if where there is a temptation to do wrong , any fault can be called small ; that is , in short , if there is any such a ...
... speak out . " " " Tis what I wish , " said the gentle- man . " Then , sir , " resumed the shepherd , " I doubt , if where there is a temptation to do wrong , any fault can be called small ; that is , in short , if there is any such a ...
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... speak evil of dig- nities To render honour to whom honour is due . So that I was furnished with a lit- tle coat of mail , as I may say , which pre- served me , while those who had no such armour fell into the snare . 99 While they were ...
... speak evil of dig- nities To render honour to whom honour is due . So that I was furnished with a lit- tle coat of mail , as I may say , which pre- served me , while those who had no such armour fell into the snare . 99 While they were ...
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... speaking , I would not do it . Those who are raised by some sudden stroke , much above the station in which divine providence has placed them , seldom turn out very good , or very happy . I have never had any great things in my power ...
... speaking , I would not do it . Those who are raised by some sudden stroke , much above the station in which divine providence has placed them , seldom turn out very good , or very happy . I have never had any great things in my power ...
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Page 32 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 48 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 18 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Page 15 - I have led but a lonely life, and have often had but little to cat, but my Bible has been meat, drink, and company to me, as I may say, and when want and trouble have come upon me, I don't know what I should have done indeed, sir, if I had not had the promises of this book for my stay and support.
Page 14 - I believe there is no day for the last thirty years, that I have not peeped at my Bible. If we can't find time to read a chapter, I defy any man to say he can't find time to read a verse; and a single text sir, well followed and put in practice every day, would make no bad figure at the year's end...
Page 9 - Mr. Johnson, who delighted in good men and good things, was very well satisfied with his reply. For he justly thought that though a hypocrite may easily contrive to appear better than he really is, to a stranger, and that no one should be too soon trusted merely for having a few good words in his mouth; yet, as he knew that "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," he always accustomed himself to judge favorably of those who had a serious deportment and solid manner of speaking.
Page 11 - You think, then," said the gentleman, " that a laborious life is a happy one." — "I do, sir, and more so especially, as it exposes a man to fewer v sins. If king Saul had continued a poor laborious man to the end of his days, he might have lived happy and honest, and died a natural death in his bed at last, which you know, sir, was more than he did. But I...
Page 9 - ... the sky, that rain was at no great distance, accosted the shepherd with asking what sort of weather he thought it would be on the morrow. " It will be such weather as pleases me,
Page 41 - You must know, sir, that both of us, next to a sin, dread a debt, and indeed in some cases a debt is a sin ; but with all our care and pains, we have never been able quite to pay off the doctor's bill for that bad fit of rheumatism which I had last winter.