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Page 86
A gentleman , who keeps an academy at Brompton , offers to take Westley Hall
for nothing , to teach him the ancient and modern tongues ; and when he has
learned them , to give him thirty pounds a year , and his board , if he will stay to
assist ...
A gentleman , who keeps an academy at Brompton , offers to take Westley Hall
for nothing , to teach him the ancient and modern tongues ; and when he has
learned them , to give him thirty pounds a year , and his board , if he will stay to
assist ...
Page 144
... in his last illness , was at all occasioned by Charles Wesley's severity and
unkindness , is here positively disproved . He was one of the truest friends on
whom Thomas Walsh could rely in the hour of trial . This holy and learned man
lingered ...
... in his last illness , was at all occasioned by Charles Wesley's severity and
unkindness , is here positively disproved . He was one of the truest friends on
whom Thomas Walsh could rely in the hour of trial . This holy and learned man
lingered ...
Page 217
The delights of domestic intercourse , of learned ease , of elegant literature , and
of polished society , he freely sacrificed , and lived for the one object of turning
sinners to the Lord Jesus ; and in the sight of crowds of happy converts , whom
he ...
The delights of domestic intercourse , of learned ease , of elegant literature , and
of polished society , he freely sacrificed , and lived for the one object of turning
sinners to the Lord Jesus ; and in the sight of crowds of happy converts , whom
he ...
Page 243
Nothing is wanted but a judicious and moderately - learned , single - hearted
master . Surely the glorious Emmanuel will point out one in his own due time . Do
pray . I am sure , prayers put up above thirty years ago are now answering : and I
...
Nothing is wanted but a judicious and moderately - learned , single - hearted
master . Surely the glorious Emmanuel will point out one in his own due time . Do
pray . I am sure , prayers put up above thirty years ago are now answering : and I
...
Page 284
He learned the business of a shoemaker , and after the expiration of his
apprenticeship travelled extensively in the country , getting work where he could ,
contracting debts , and pleased with his own cleverness in cheating
unsuspecting ...
He learned the business of a shoemaker , and after the expiration of his
apprenticeship travelled extensively in the country , getting work where he could ,
contracting debts , and pleased with his own cleverness in cheating
unsuspecting ...
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Page 129 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Page 486 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 469 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 88 - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Page 123 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Page 421 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Page 101 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 115 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 14 - And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in •the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Page 55 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.