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Page 35
... actions , the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity , as to endeavour to wear as much of the appear- ance of it as the cafe will well let them ; -fo that , in the hardest acts a man fhall be guilty of , he has fome ...
... actions , the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity , as to endeavour to wear as much of the appear- ance of it as the cafe will well let them ; -fo that , in the hardest acts a man fhall be guilty of , he has fome ...
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Laurence Sterne. " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the actions of generous and compaffionate tempers baffle all little reafonings about them . -True charity , in the Apostle's defcription , as it is kind , and is not eafily ...
Laurence Sterne. " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the actions of generous and compaffionate tempers baffle all little reafonings about them . -True charity , in the Apostle's defcription , as it is kind , and is not eafily ...
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... action fhould then be overlooked by the eye of the All - feeing Judge , but barely to intimate to us , that a charitable and bene- volent difpofition is fo principal and ruling a part of a man's character , as to be a con- fiderable ...
... action fhould then be overlooked by the eye of the All - feeing Judge , but barely to intimate to us , that a charitable and bene- volent difpofition is fo principal and ruling a part of a man's character , as to be a con- fiderable ...
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... actions of his life : he may hang out falfe colours and deceive the world ; but how can a man deceive himself ? That a man can , is evident , because he daily does fo . - Scripture tells us , and gives us many hiftorical proofs of it ...
... actions of his life : he may hang out falfe colours and deceive the world ; but how can a man deceive himself ? That a man can , is evident , because he daily does fo . - Scripture tells us , and gives us many hiftorical proofs of it ...
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... actions ftand there , though equally bad and vicious in themfelves : He will foon find that fuch of them as ftrong inclination or custom has prompted him to commit , are generally dref- fed out , and painted with all the falfe beau ...
... actions ftand there , though equally bad and vicious in themfelves : He will foon find that fuch of them as ftrong inclination or custom has prompted him to commit , are generally dref- fed out , and painted with all the falfe beau ...
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Page 35 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 12 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 48 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 401 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk ? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus...
Page 42 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Page 66 - And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Page 415 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Page 273 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page viii - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 62 - Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth la truth.