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... Plutarch , or any similar author ; and require of her to repeat it afterwards in her own words ? This would not only add , daily , one important fact to her stock of knowledge , but would tend to form a perspicuous and elegant style ...
... Plutarch , or any similar author ; and require of her to repeat it afterwards in her own words ? This would not only add , daily , one important fact to her stock of knowledge , but would tend to form a perspicuous and elegant style ...
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... Plutarch's relation of the illiterate citizen , who voted Aristides to the punishment of the Ostracism ! When this great man questioned his accuser , whether Aris- tides had ever injured him , he replied , so far from it , that he did ...
... Plutarch's relation of the illiterate citizen , who voted Aristides to the punishment of the Ostracism ! When this great man questioned his accuser , whether Aris- tides had ever injured him , he replied , so far from it , that he did ...
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... Plutarch , who severely condemns the Athenians , had too just a judgment to censure either the ex- cellence of the poets , or the good taste of the people who admired them . But he blames them for that excessive passion for diversions ...
... Plutarch , who severely condemns the Athenians , had too just a judgment to censure either the ex- cellence of the poets , or the good taste of the people who admired them . But he blames them for that excessive passion for diversions ...
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... Plutarch . This author teaches two things excellently , antiquity and human nature . He would deserve admiration , were it only for that magazine of wisdom , condensed in the excel- lent sayings of so many great men , which he has ...
... Plutarch . This author teaches two things excellently , antiquity and human nature . He would deserve admiration , were it only for that magazine of wisdom , condensed in the excel- lent sayings of so many great men , which he has ...
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... Plutarch , or Juvenal , or even the comparatively decorous Virgil , that we take in hand ; the perusal cannot fail to suggest to every considerate , and especially to every female reader , the obligations which we owe to Christianity ...
... Plutarch , or Juvenal , or even the comparatively decorous Virgil , that we take in hand ; the perusal cannot fail to suggest to every considerate , and especially to every female reader , the obligations which we owe to Christianity ...
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Page 358 - Through the tender mercy of our God : whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us ; To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 175 - Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 365 - Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, And make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also.
Page 365 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
Page 163 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath : there is none else.
Page 171 - Not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.
Page 479 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 468 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full...
Page 366 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it...
Page 152 - The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God; they are foolishness unto him.