Letters to a young lady, in which the duties and character of women are considered, Volume 2 |
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... attachment , must be inapplicable to the unpitying and remorfelefs power , who , folely from his own determination , wills the greater part of his creatures to deftruction . Our fex has been charged with being peculiarly apt to confound ...
... attachment , must be inapplicable to the unpitying and remorfelefs power , who , folely from his own determination , wills the greater part of his creatures to deftruction . Our fex has been charged with being peculiarly apt to confound ...
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Jane West. thofe who adminifter it . The merit alfo which they seem to attach to the long journeys and fevere privations that they undergo to hear a fine new man , favours greatly of the fuppofed benefits that were formerly ascribed to ...
Jane West. thofe who adminifter it . The merit alfo which they seem to attach to the long journeys and fevere privations that they undergo to hear a fine new man , favours greatly of the fuppofed benefits that were formerly ascribed to ...
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... attach- ment to their own notions , which they charge as heinous offences against us ; who , dreading the threatenings denounced against those that mutilate the facred vo- lume , dare not erafe a truth which per- vades the whole feries ...
... attach- ment to their own notions , which they charge as heinous offences against us ; who , dreading the threatenings denounced against those that mutilate the facred vo- lume , dare not erafe a truth which per- vades the whole feries ...
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... attachment to fome few pecua liar doctrines ? We fometimes adopt er roneous opinions from pertinacity , or in- tentional fingularity ; but oftener through that infirmity of judgment which will not permit an ardent imagination to reft ...
... attachment to fome few pecua liar doctrines ? We fometimes adopt er roneous opinions from pertinacity , or in- tentional fingularity ; but oftener through that infirmity of judgment which will not permit an ardent imagination to reft ...
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... attach confequence to merely fpeculative diftinctions , which they do not understand . Hence arofe thofe miferable and unac- countable diffenfions ( which may be justly termed theological quibbling ) that perplexed the school divines ...
... attach confequence to merely fpeculative diftinctions , which they do not understand . Hence arofe thofe miferable and unac- countable diffenfions ( which may be justly termed theological quibbling ) that perplexed the school divines ...
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Page 302 - 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 79 - To love, honour, and succour my father and mother : To honour and obey the King, and all that are put in authority under him : To submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors and masters : To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters...
Page 259 - Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, . hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day.
Page 154 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 143 - 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 384 - there is a time to weep as well as a " time to laugh, a time to dance, and a "time to mourn.
Page 258 - ... 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 332 - blufhes reddening as fhe moves along, " diforder'd at the deep regard fhe draws...
Page 451 - 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 348 - Lord. i» i Tim. v. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and efpecially for thofe of his own houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is worfe than an infidel.