Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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... appeared to render a recess desirable , which in the intervals of some visitation has been devoted to the publi- cation of the present work . Details of gross vulgarity I have omitted , and a mantle has been thrown over much vice . Some ...
... appeared to render a recess desirable , which in the intervals of some visitation has been devoted to the publi- cation of the present work . Details of gross vulgarity I have omitted , and a mantle has been thrown over much vice . Some ...
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... , and they puts such lots on at nights so thick , it ain't no use a trying . " This young man attended my meetings , and appeared to have given up his habits of depreda- 99 tion . He told me lately : " Mr. 12 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
... , and they puts such lots on at nights so thick , it ain't no use a trying . " This young man attended my meetings , and appeared to have given up his habits of depreda- 99 tion . He told me lately : " Mr. 12 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
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... appeared to pay little attention to my religious instructions , but at last he was persuaded to attend a place of worship , and has since then , a period of several years , been most regular in his attendance , but his ignorance is ...
... appeared to pay little attention to my religious instructions , but at last he was persuaded to attend a place of worship , and has since then , a period of several years , been most regular in his attendance , but his ignorance is ...
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... appeared to have been visited by persons of a character that would hardly be supposed to place confidence in such delusion . One of these fortune - tellers , who , with the others , was visited by me with a view to their conversion ...
... appeared to have been visited by persons of a character that would hardly be supposed to place confidence in such delusion . One of these fortune - tellers , who , with the others , was visited by me with a view to their conversion ...
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... appeared to produce some effect upon her , and she professed to feel herself a sinner- previously she always maintained the contrary . I told her it was useless to talk about repentance unless she broke off her sins , and urged her to ...
... appeared to produce some effect upon her , and she professed to feel herself a sinner- previously she always maintained the contrary . I told her it was useless to talk about repentance unless she broke off her sins , and urged her to ...
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Page 31 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 147 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 219 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 133 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 59 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 338 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 331 - ... THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale...
Page 209 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 335 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 40 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.