The Works of Hannah More ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published, Volume 4A. Strahan, 1801 - Education |
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... talk over the news of the day without afpiring to direct the events of it . They read the papers with that anxiety which every honeft man feels in the daily history of his country . But as trade , which they did understand , flourished ...
... talk over the news of the day without afpiring to direct the events of it . They read the papers with that anxiety which every honeft man feels in the daily history of his country . But as trade , which they did understand , flourished ...
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... talking , and reading , and writing , and difputing , and teaching , and profelyting now ftruck him as the only life ; fo he foon fet out for the country with his family ; for unhappily Mr. Fantom had been the husband of a very worthy ...
... talking , and reading , and writing , and difputing , and teaching , and profelyting now ftruck him as the only life ; fo he foon fet out for the country with his family ; for unhappily Mr. Fantom had been the husband of a very worthy ...
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... talking of trade or politics , of private news or public affairs , still Mr. Fantom was ever on the watch to hitch in his darling doctrines ; whatever he began with , he was fure to end with a pert squib at the Bible , a vapid jeft on ...
... talking of trade or politics , of private news or public affairs , still Mr. Fantom was ever on the watch to hitch in his darling doctrines ; whatever he began with , he was fure to end with a pert squib at the Bible , a vapid jeft on ...
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... talk to you for half a day on " the abuse of riches , and on my own 66 contempt of money . " Trueman . O pray do not give yourself the trouble ; it will be an eafier way by half of vindicating yourself from one , and of proving the ...
... talk to you for half a day on " the abuse of riches , and on my own 66 contempt of money . " Trueman . O pray do not give yourself the trouble ; it will be an eafier way by half of vindicating yourself from one , and of proving the ...
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... talk on any fubject but his wine and his spoons , nor harangue on any project but that of recovering both by bringing Wil- liam to justice . Some days paffed away , in which Mr. Fantom , having had time to cool , began to be ashamed ...
... talk on any fubject but his wine and his spoons , nor harangue on any project but that of recovering both by bringing Wil- liam to justice . Some days paffed away , in which Mr. Fantom , having had time to cool , began to be ashamed ...
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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...