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... them thither , and by his plain and prudent in- structions enabled them to understand , and of course to delight in the public worship of God . 28 THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES STOCK of Salisbury Plain . 37.
... them thither , and by his plain and prudent in- structions enabled them to understand , and of course to delight in the public worship of God . 28 THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES STOCK of Salisbury Plain . 37.
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Including Several Pieces Never Before Published Hannah More. 28 THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES STOCK , were two lads apprenticed at nearly the same time , to Mr. Willi_ ams , a shoemaker , in a small town in Oxfordshire : they ...
Including Several Pieces Never Before Published Hannah More. 28 THE TWO SHOEMAKERS . JACK BROWN and JAMES STOCK , were two lads apprenticed at nearly the same time , to Mr. Willi_ ams , a shoemaker , in a small town in Oxfordshire : they ...
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... Jack a gentleman , and set him above his brothers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he should be removed from the indulgences of ...
... Jack a gentleman , and set him above his brothers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he should be removed from the indulgences of ...
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... Jack Brown sung a good song , and played many diverting tricks , Williams liked his company , and often allowed him to make one at the Greyhound , where he would laugh heartily at his stories ; so that every one thought Jack was much ...
... Jack Brown sung a good song , and played many diverting tricks , Williams liked his company , and often allowed him to make one at the Greyhound , where he would laugh heartily at his stories ; so that every one thought Jack was much ...
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... Jack ? " Jack Brown came forward , but was too much frightened to speak . " O wretched boy ! said he , " I fear I shall have the ruin of thy soul , as " well as my own , to answer for . Stop short ! -Take " warning - now , in the days ...
... Jack ? " Jack Brown came forward , but was too much frightened to speak . " O wretched boy ! said he , " I fear I shall have the ruin of thy soul , as " well as my own , to answer for . Stop short ! -Take " warning - now , in the days ...
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Page 20 - Art Thou He that cometh or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Page 99 - But the end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Page 154 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Page 148 - Jones, those who teach the poor must indeed give line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, as they can receive it. So that teaching must be a great grievance to those who do not really make it a labour of love.
Page 114 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 401 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Page 4 - Yet he does what he can, and more than many richer men do, and more than he can well afford. Besides that, his prayers and good advice we are always sure of; and we are truly thankful for that, for a man must give, you know, sir, according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Page 356 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 281 - I take encouragement tb,at that glorious prophecy, that " of the increase of his government there shall be no " end," seems to be gradually accomplishing; and in no instance more, perhaps, than in the noble attempt about to be made for the abolition of the African Slave-trade*.