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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... letters to a friend . Nothing extraordi- nary occurs in these letters . Their style is unharmo- , nious , meagre , and pert . However , they are in other respects valuable . They depict the upstart infidel , brawling , wh - g , and ...
... letters to a friend . Nothing extraordi- nary occurs in these letters . Their style is unharmo- , nious , meagre , and pert . However , they are in other respects valuable . They depict the upstart infidel , brawling , wh - g , and ...
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... letter . Still , John is . not unworthy of consideration . Mr. Lackington gives him the character of an honest infidel ; for Jack was an honest man . He tells Jack , that no doubt there are speculative infidels , who would be glad to ...
... letter . Still , John is . not unworthy of consideration . Mr. Lackington gives him the character of an honest infidel ; for Jack was an honest man . He tells Jack , that no doubt there are speculative infidels , who would be glad to ...
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... letter to Jack Jolly ; who , it appears , as well as the brother of Jack , died very near the time when that letter was written . Mere common - place observations form none of the kind of observations looked for in a book of this sort ...
... letter to Jack Jolly ; who , it appears , as well as the brother of Jack , died very near the time when that letter was written . Mere common - place observations form none of the kind of observations looked for in a book of this sort ...
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... letter in which the confession of his unbelief in the efficacy of a death - bed repentance occurs , he " hovered over the true faith , without being satisfied that it was of God * . " Nay it was with difficulty that he prevailed on ...
... letter in which the confession of his unbelief in the efficacy of a death - bed repentance occurs , he " hovered over the true faith , without being satisfied that it was of God * . " Nay it was with difficulty that he prevailed on ...
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... letter , felicitates his acquaintance on this happy change ; and recommends the perusal of such books as Paley's Evidences of Christianity ; Bishop Wat- son's Apology for the Bible , in letters to Thomas Paine ; Bishop Porteus's ...
... letter , felicitates his acquaintance on this happy change ; and recommends the perusal of such books as Paley's Evidences of Christianity ; Bishop Wat- son's Apology for the Bible , in letters to Thomas Paine ; Bishop Porteus's ...
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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...