Lackington's Confessions, Rendered Into Narrative: To which are Added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-schoolsB. Crosby and Company, 1804 - 150 páginas |
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... human faculties . Men ought to restrict themselves in the use , or the abuse , of those gifts which , used in moderation , are blessings ; which , abused , operate but as a curse . He is my friend who , in befriending me , befriends ...
... human faculties . Men ought to restrict themselves in the use , or the abuse , of those gifts which , used in moderation , are blessings ; which , abused , operate but as a curse . He is my friend who , in befriending me , befriends ...
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... human learning , compared with the knowledge of the sublime truths of the Gospel ; and it must be owned , that it seems egre- gious folly to pass one's days in the investigation or discovery of trifles , while the book of God lies ...
... human learning , compared with the knowledge of the sublime truths of the Gospel ; and it must be owned , that it seems egre- gious folly to pass one's days in the investigation or discovery of trifles , while the book of God lies ...
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... human nature . We do not wonder that it is of qualities to subject the young and heedless to rank deception . We do not wonder that it has undermined the religious sense in the hearts and at the consciences of the volatile , imitative ...
... human nature . We do not wonder that it is of qualities to subject the young and heedless to rank deception . We do not wonder that it has undermined the religious sense in the hearts and at the consciences of the volatile , imitative ...
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... human beings , it teaches . The same Secker , whom we have already quoted , ( as we have with a charm of sensibility he knew so well to inspire ) on the subject of our duties , has this which passage - a passage ( let us hope and trust ) ...
... human beings , it teaches . The same Secker , whom we have already quoted , ( as we have with a charm of sensibility he knew so well to inspire ) on the subject of our duties , has this which passage - a passage ( let us hope and trust ) ...
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... human actions , could be nothing but vice , loathsome diseases , and that disregard to truth , against which the enlightened Secker wielded the force of his vigorous pen ! Why will men not believe ? Have the writings of Infidels ...
... human actions , could be nothing but vice , loathsome diseases , and that disregard to truth , against which the enlightened Secker wielded the force of his vigorous pen ! Why will men not believe ? Have the writings of Infidels ...
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Lackington's Confessions, Rendered Into Narrative: To which are Added ... James Lackington,Allan Macleod Visualização integral - 1804 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Almighty Anaxagoras atheists beauty believe Bible Bishop Bishop of Llandaff bliss boardingschools body Christ Christian Cicero concerning confessionalist Confessions creatures death death-bed repentance Deism Deist Denis Dick Thrifty divine doctrine Dorcas duties earth enlightened eternal ev'ry evil faith fear fessionalist freethinker give glory Gospel grace Greece habits happiness hath heart heaven hell holy hope human ignorance immortality infidel instruction irreligion Jack Jolly Jesus Lackington lady laws learned less letters ligion live Lord Lord Shaftesbury Madame de Genlis mankind mercy merit Methodist mind moral narrator nature neighbours never notions observations ourselves persecuted persons philosophers pious Plato poet pretended punishment quoted reason religion religious rendered respect Secker sentiments sincere sionalist sophisms soul sublime taught thee thine thing Thomas Paine thou thought tions Tockington true truth virtue Voltaire Wesley whilst whole wisdom word worship wretched writer written young zeal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 79 - But yet all is not done; man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting godhead, and, so losing all To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die. Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Página 76 - Not me? They, therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt...
Página 75 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view.
Página 97 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Página 63 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Página 76 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also...
Página 95 - Rests too in hope of meeting once again Its better half, never to sunder more. Nor shall it hope in vain: — The time draws on, When not a single spot of burial earth, Whether on land, or in the spacious sea, But must give back its long-committed...
Página 98 - A lewd young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, Father, says he, you are in a very miserable condition, if there is not another world. True son, said the hermit; but what is thy condition if there is?
Página 117 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Página 61 - T' improve those charms, and keep them in repair, For which the spoiler thanks thee not? Foul feeder ! Coarse fare and carrion please thee full as well, And leave as keen a relish...