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... now picked up all the common - place notions against Christianity , which have
been answered a hundred times over ; these he kept by him ready cut and dried ,
and brought out in all companies with a zeal which would have done honour to ...
... now picked up all the common - place notions against Christianity , which have
been answered a hundred times over ; these he kept by him ready cut and dried ,
and brought out in all companies with a zeal which would have done honour to ...
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... could once bring Trueman over , the whole club at the Cat and Bagpipes might
be brought to follow his example ; and thus he might see himself at the head of a
fociety of his own proselytes ; the supreme object of a philofopher ' s ambition .
... could once bring Trueman over , the whole club at the Cat and Bagpipes might
be brought to follow his example ; and thus he might see himself at the head of a
fociety of his own proselytes ; the supreme object of a philofopher ' s ambition .
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TIL a wild ' way , which I know can never be brought about . Fantom . I despise a
narrow field . O for the reign of universal benevolence ! I want to make all
mankind good and happy . Trueman . Dear me ! fure that must be a wholesale
sort of a ...
TIL a wild ' way , which I know can never be brought about . Fantom . I despise a
narrow field . O for the reign of universal benevolence ! I want to make all
mankind good and happy . Trueman . Dear me ! fure that must be a wholesale
sort of a ...
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Mr . Trueman made his way through a thick smoke , and ran up the narrow stair .
cafe which the fire had not yet reached . He got safely to the loft , snatched up the
little creature , who was sweetly fleeping in its poor hammock , and brought him ...
Mr . Trueman made his way through a thick smoke , and ran up the narrow stair .
cafe which the fire had not yet reached . He got safely to the loft , snatched up the
little creature , who was sweetly fleeping in its poor hammock , and brought him ...
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its poor hammock , and brought him down naked in his arms : and as he gave
him to the half - distracted mother , he felt that her joy and gratitude would have
been no bad pay for the danger he had run , even if no higher motive had set him
to ...
its poor hammock , and brought him down naked in his arms : and as he gave
him to the half - distracted mother , he felt that her joy and gratitude would have
been no bad pay for the danger he had run , even if no higher motive had set him
to ...
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Page 89 - ... all. You and I, master Worthy, have worked hard many years, and think it very well to have scraped a trifle of money together ; you a few hundreds I suppose, and I a few thousands. But one would think every man in these books had the bank of England in his 'scrutore.
Page 418 - For it is impoflible for thofe who " were once enlightened, and have tafted of the heavenly " gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghoft, and " have tafted the good word of God and the powers of " the world to come, if they fhall fall away, to renew them " again unto repentance ; feeing they crucify to themfelves " the Son of God afrefh, and put him to an open fhame.
Page 295 - Whether pity for us, or fear for themselves, wrought strongest, God knoweth ; probably the latter ; for the mob were wrought up to such a pitch of fury, that their...
Page 27 - Saunders to freedom, as a Pole or a South American, though I should be very glad to help them too. But one must begin to love somewhere, and to do good somewhere ; and I think it is as natural to love one's own family, and to do good in one's own neighborhood, as to any body else.
Page 1 - WILLIAM. MR. FANTOM was a retail trader in the city of London. As he had no turn to any expensive vices, he was reckoned a sober decent man, but he was covetous and proud, selfish and conceited. As soon as he got forward in the world, his vanity began to display itself, though not in the ordinary method, that of making a figure and living away ; but still he was tormented with a longing...
Page 114 - he that hateth his brother " is a murderer ;" and again, " love your " enemies, blefs them that curfe you, and ' ?' pray for them that defpitefully ufe you *
Page 398 - Blefled are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 398 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
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| Title | The works of Hannah More, Volume 4 The works of Hannah More, Hannah More |
| Author | Hannah More |
| Published | 1801 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Jul 2006 |
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