Eccentricity, Or, a Check to Censoriousness: With Chapters on Other SubjectsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1859 - 283 páginas |
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... express no regret . I sincerely respect the judgment of wise and good men ; I love the connexion to which I belong ; I venerate the character and admire the qualifications of all its superior ministers . But as certain stiff ...
... express no regret . I sincerely respect the judgment of wise and good men ; I love the connexion to which I belong ; I venerate the character and admire the qualifications of all its superior ministers . But as certain stiff ...
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... they should be re- minded that we have an express command from God to withdraw from them . ( 1 Tim . vi . 5. ) We make these remarks because selfishness , injustice , and other vices WEATHER - CARES - BOOKS - MEN . 13.
... they should be re- minded that we have an express command from God to withdraw from them . ( 1 Tim . vi . 5. ) We make these remarks because selfishness , injustice , and other vices WEATHER - CARES - BOOKS - MEN . 13.
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... express regret that the Sun and Moon should diminish their dignity , by the slightest irregularity of motion , thus giving sanction to the wild eccentricities of the comets . Stars , planets , and comets , move in the spheres ap ...
... express regret that the Sun and Moon should diminish their dignity , by the slightest irregularity of motion , thus giving sanction to the wild eccentricities of the comets . Stars , planets , and comets , move in the spheres ap ...
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... . I look again at the star and the comet - I allow my imagination full play . The star seems instinct with life and animation , as if to express its delight that the comet should thus kindly visit its neigh- bourhood 30 ECCENTRICITY .
... . I look again at the star and the comet - I allow my imagination full play . The star seems instinct with life and animation , as if to express its delight that the comet should thus kindly visit its neigh- bourhood 30 ECCENTRICITY .
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... express injunction , " Be not as the hypo- crites of a sad countenance . " ( Matt . vi . 16. ) They may fancy that by this excess of gloomy gravity , they are recommending religion , and producing the impression on their neighbours ...
... express injunction , " Be not as the hypo- crites of a sad countenance . " ( Matt . vi . 16. ) They may fancy that by this excess of gloomy gravity , they are recommending religion , and producing the impression on their neighbours ...
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Addlepate admire affairs anecdotes antipathy appointed Beelzebub Bible bipeds blessed brother called censoriousness censure CHAPTER character cheerful Christian Christian ministers Church of England churches circuit cism comets comfort conversation Count of Savoy dear defend Democritus dignity disappointment divine eccentricity envy esteem evil facetiousness fancy friends gentlemen give grave gravity Harriet Beecher Stowe hints honour horse humour injurious intel kind labours ladies laugh lectures levity London look lovefeast madam mental Metho mind mischief neighbours never numerous obliged opinion parlour peculiar persons Pharisees Pickholes piety pious platform poor pragmaticalness preachers preaching pulpit queer reader reason religion religious denomination respect rich ridicule salary Scratchwell selfishness sense serious sermons solemn sometimes sons of Belial speak speakers speech spirit strabism superior talk thing sinful thou thought tion tricity trouble Wesleyan witty wonder write
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Página 146 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Página 201 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Página 96 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Página 57 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 162 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 128 - And he was angry, and would not go in : therefore came his father out, and entreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment : and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends : but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Página 128 - And he said unto him ; Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Página 152 - O full of all subtilty, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all right'eousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the lord...
Página 17 - The' illustrious stranger passing, terror sheds On gazing -nations from his fiery train, Of length enormous, takes his ample round Through depths of ether ; coasts unnumber'd worlds Of more than solar glory; doubles wide Heaven's mighty cape; and then revisits earth, From the long travel of a thousand years.
Página 128 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.