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... better to have omitted ; but on the whole they exhibit the greatness of the sacred call- ing , so as to stimulate the preacher to an humble and earnest pursuit after excellence . The editor has made scarcely any alterations in the ...
... better to have omitted ; but on the whole they exhibit the greatness of the sacred call- ing , so as to stimulate the preacher to an humble and earnest pursuit after excellence . The editor has made scarcely any alterations in the ...
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... better than any book that I know ; and therefore will deserve to be read upon that account over and over again ; not to say anything of his arguments . " Lord Clarendon , also , who was particularly intimate with him , thus cele- Butler ...
... better than any book that I know ; and therefore will deserve to be read upon that account over and over again ; not to say anything of his arguments . " Lord Clarendon , also , who was particularly intimate with him , thus cele- Butler ...
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... better cotton - spinners ; our landlords , that it makes better tenants ; our physicians for the insane , that it hastens the recovery of the diseased in mind ; our friends of temperance and of social reform , that it affords efficient ...
... better cotton - spinners ; our landlords , that it makes better tenants ; our physicians for the insane , that it hastens the recovery of the diseased in mind ; our friends of temperance and of social reform , that it affords efficient ...
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... my business . The jingling of too much and false philosophy among them often drowns the noise of Aaron's bells . I feel myself much better in Herbert's temple . " 250 DIALOGUES ON ELOQUENCE , PARTICULARLY THE ELOQUENCE OF THE.
... my business . The jingling of too much and false philosophy among them often drowns the noise of Aaron's bells . I feel myself much better in Herbert's temple . " 250 DIALOGUES ON ELOQUENCE , PARTICULARLY THE ELOQUENCE OF THE.
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... better pleased with a discourse which has more body in it , and less spirit ; that things might make a deeper impression on the mind , and be more easily remem- bered . What is the end of speaking , but to persuade people , and to ...
... better pleased with a discourse which has more body in it , and less spirit ; that things might make a deeper impression on the mind , and be more easily remem- bered . What is the end of speaking , but to persuade people , and to ...
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Page 149 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 375 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 356 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 439 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 417 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 136 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 439 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 349 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 16 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 121 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...