The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 3W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... hear you , would think it were worth leaving all the world for you ; while I , habitually poffeffed of that happiness , have been throw- ing away impotent endeavours for the reft of mankind , to the neglect of her for whom any other man ...
... hear you , would think it were worth leaving all the world for you ; while I , habitually poffeffed of that happiness , have been throw- ing away impotent endeavours for the reft of mankind , to the neglect of her for whom any other man ...
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... hear , and will be apt fometimes to question their grand principle , and tell them they have fouls . And truly it is no wonder if the abettors of Athe- ifm take this courfe ; for fince they have no folid founda- tion of truth or reafon ...
... hear , and will be apt fometimes to question their grand principle , and tell them they have fouls . And truly it is no wonder if the abettors of Athe- ifm take this courfe ; for fince they have no folid founda- tion of truth or reafon ...
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... hear nothing because the eye difcerns not founds , that we tafte not because the ear understands not gufts and favours , and fo on to the rest . And yet this is the bottom of those arguments which the great pretenders to reafon make ...
... hear nothing because the eye difcerns not founds , that we tafte not because the ear understands not gufts and favours , and fo on to the rest . And yet this is the bottom of those arguments which the great pretenders to reafon make ...
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... hear what may be of- fered on the fide of faith . Sure it is but a low com- pofition for God thus to divide with Satan ; yet it is that of which his emiffaries are fo jealous , that it is one of their grand maxims , that none who ...
... hear what may be of- fered on the fide of faith . Sure it is but a low com- pofition for God thus to divide with Satan ; yet it is that of which his emiffaries are fo jealous , that it is one of their grand maxims , that none who ...
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... hear a friend or benefactor reviled , and express no difpleasure . Is God then fo friendless among them , that only his traducers and blafphemers can be patiently heard ? Among the Jews , at the hearing of any blaf- phemy , 2 ous will ...
... hear a friend or benefactor reviled , and express no difpleasure . Is God then fo friendless among them , that only his traducers and blafphemers can be patiently heard ? Among the Jews , at the hearing of any blaf- phemy , 2 ous will ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
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 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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 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.