The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... fhall no longer fuf- fer by your Person , nor fhall your Eyes for the future dazzle 2 . me into a Blindness towards your Understanding . I rejoice in this publick Occafion to fhew my Esteem for you ; and muft do do you the Justice to ...
... fhall no longer fuf- fer by your Person , nor fhall your Eyes for the future dazzle 2 . me into a Blindness towards your Understanding . I rejoice in this publick Occafion to fhew my Esteem for you ; and muft do do you the Justice to ...
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... fhall all the Nations of the Earth be bleffed , but only the dawning of the Gospel ? which is nothing but glad Tidings of the Mediator . What was the Law of Mofes , but only the fame Gospel shining thro ' a Cloud of Types and fymbolical ...
... fhall all the Nations of the Earth be bleffed , but only the dawning of the Gospel ? which is nothing but glad Tidings of the Mediator . What was the Law of Mofes , but only the fame Gospel shining thro ' a Cloud of Types and fymbolical ...
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... fhall difcourfe a little of Happiness , without that immediate Regard to another Life which might be expected ; not judging myfelf obliged either to prove the Certainty of it , or to demonftrate the Rea- fonableness of embracing Mifery ...
... fhall difcourfe a little of Happiness , without that immediate Regard to another Life which might be expected ; not judging myfelf obliged either to prove the Certainty of it , or to demonftrate the Rea- fonableness of embracing Mifery ...
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... fhall then have their Glory turn- ed into Shame , their Riots and Excesses into the want of a drop of Water , and fhall retain nothing of their Great- nefs but the Guilt , the grating Remembrance of having a- bufed thofe temporal ...
... fhall then have their Glory turn- ed into Shame , their Riots and Excesses into the want of a drop of Water , and fhall retain nothing of their Great- nefs but the Guilt , the grating Remembrance of having a- bufed thofe temporal ...
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... fhall moft please ourselves . The Glutton need not put a Knife to his Throat , but is only to put an Edge upon his Palate . The Drunkard need not refrain his Cups , but only take care that they be fill'd with the most delicious Liquor ...
... fhall moft please ourselves . The Glutton need not put a Knife to his Throat , but is only to put an Edge upon his Palate . The Drunkard need not refrain his Cups , but only take care that they be fill'd with the most delicious Liquor ...
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Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 38 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If 1 make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 266 - A man travelling into a far country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods; to one five talents, to another two, to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and took his journey.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 34 - God to be as the air and the sea ; and we all enclosed in his circle, wrapped up in the lap of his infinite nature ; or as infants in the wombs of their pregnant mothers : and we can no more be removed from the presence of God, than from our own being.
Page 260 - ... whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think