The Ladies' Repository, Volume 1J.F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, 1841 |
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... grace the saloons of a baron , or the alcoves of a royal library . As an ar- gument in her petition , she may mention former indis- creet selections of books , and a penitent resolution to effect a thorough reformation . I said he ...
... grace the saloons of a baron , or the alcoves of a royal library . As an ar- gument in her petition , she may mention former indis- creet selections of books , and a penitent resolution to effect a thorough reformation . I said he ...
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... grace has vailed , in the broad street ; tells her tale aloud , and been cast . Religion gives a woman that dignity which courts display . She runs to the rich and to the poor , best suits her dependence — a dignity of feeling , not of ...
... grace has vailed , in the broad street ; tells her tale aloud , and been cast . Religion gives a woman that dignity which courts display . She runs to the rich and to the poor , best suits her dependence — a dignity of feeling , not of ...
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... grace a scene of public fes- er has pictured in her imagination at the bare mention tivity . Mothers , daughters , wives , and sisters , who sel- of December , from the reality of the day in question . dom were permitted to leave the ...
... grace a scene of public fes- er has pictured in her imagination at the bare mention tivity . Mothers , daughters , wives , and sisters , who sel- of December , from the reality of the day in question . dom were permitted to leave the ...
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... grace , and , forsaken of to the manger and the cross . God so loved ( pitied ) the world , that he gave his only begotten Son . " If the divine glory were to have remained the same in its manifestations , we have reason to believe that ...
... grace , and , forsaken of to the manger and the cross . God so loved ( pitied ) the world , that he gave his only begotten Son . " If the divine glory were to have remained the same in its manifestations , we have reason to believe that ...
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... grace its vanishing form ! What is it , that mind , worthy of nobler uses , should bow to its behests ? But in so wide a field as that over which we have wandered , and with such growthful evils , it were strange indeed should we meet ...
... grace its vanishing form ! What is it , that mind , worthy of nobler uses , should bow to its behests ? But in so wide a field as that over which we have wandered , and with such growthful evils , it were strange indeed should we meet ...
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Page 137 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 103 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 28 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
Page 328 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 178 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 6 - She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth meat to her household, And a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it : With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Page 168 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 323 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 247 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 161 - And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession, in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.