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Page 11
... conduct of the primitive and modern chris- tians ? Were you not , at first , almost led to form the conclusion , that the latter could not be derived from the former ? Or did you suppose it possible that they might be the same people in ...
... conduct of the primitive and modern chris- tians ? Were you not , at first , almost led to form the conclusion , that the latter could not be derived from the former ? Or did you suppose it possible that they might be the same people in ...
Page 44
... conduct , and it required all the ingenuity of the devil to set her wrong . Your poet Milton gives a very true account of the trouble I had in that affair . Milton , indeed , is the only writer that gives any thing like a correct idea ...
... conduct , and it required all the ingenuity of the devil to set her wrong . Your poet Milton gives a very true account of the trouble I had in that affair . Milton , indeed , is the only writer that gives any thing like a correct idea ...
Page 47
... conduct in yielding this point to the old sinner ; but as we had put on the paint- ed visor of refined man , we determined not to throw it off . ] Devil . I have sometimes supposed that your gay ones were like to have correct ideas of ...
... conduct in yielding this point to the old sinner ; but as we had put on the paint- ed visor of refined man , we determined not to throw it off . ] Devil . I have sometimes supposed that your gay ones were like to have correct ideas of ...
Page 51
... conduct the reader , on a cloud of smoke , to the Limbo of Vani- ty , where he will give an accurate description of those visionary castles which have been erected in that fan- tastic region by the dreaming smokers , and smoking ...
... conduct the reader , on a cloud of smoke , to the Limbo of Vani- ty , where he will give an accurate description of those visionary castles which have been erected in that fan- tastic region by the dreaming smokers , and smoking ...
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... conduct marked out by the precepts of the gospel . Hereafter , when we say any thing against those who are called christians , let it not be supposed that we oppose the doctrines which they affect to believe : we only complain of the ...
... conduct marked out by the precepts of the gospel . Hereafter , when we say any thing against those who are called christians , let it not be supposed that we oppose the doctrines which they affect to believe : we only complain of the ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.