Correspondence and Diary, Volume 2Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829 |
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acquaintance admirable Æneid affair affection affectionate Friend agreeable Albans answer apprehend assure behaviour believe bless brother character charmed Christ Christian circumstances CLARK Clio considerable conversation Coventry creature deal dear friend DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR desire divine divine grace engaged entertained entreat esteem exceedingly excellent excuse expect express favour fond friendship Georgic give glad Hampstead happy Harborough hear heart heartily HERACLITUS honour hope Hughes humble Servant humble service imagine intended intimate Jennings Jennings's Job Orton June 11 June 23 Kibworth lady lately Leicestershire letter Lucretius March 21 mention mind minister Miss Kitty mistress nature never Northampton Nottingham obliged opportunity pardon perhaps person persuade Pharisees PHILIP DODDRIDGE piety pleasure Pliny Pray prayers preach racter reason received respect Reverend Sir SAMUEL CLARK sense sentiments sermon sincerity sure tell temper tender thing thought tion uneasiness wish write
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Page 517 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 244 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Page 276 - But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away *aptive into all nations ; and Jerusalem shall be -trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 290 - My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Page 368 - Inde furor vulgo, quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, quum solos credat habendos Esse deos, quos ipse colit.
Page 155 - Early, and vain, into the world I came, Big with false hopes, and eager after fame ; Till looking round me, ere the race began, Madmen, and giddy fools, were all that ran ; Reclaim'd betimes, I from the lists retire, And thank the gods, who my retreat inspire.
Page 472 - We had laws relating to that affair which were contrived so as to leave room for some dispute ; and if any case of difficulty happened, we examined into it, and often had long pleadings on both sides, and at last the cause was determined by the votes of the majority. The time of these debates was immediately after we had given an account of our private studies. We...
Page 471 - Mr. Jennings never admitted any into his academy till he had examined them as to their improvement in school learning, and on their capacity for entering on the course of studies which he proposed. He likewise insisted on satisfaction as to their moral character, and the marks of a serious disposition. " The first two years of our course we read the Scriptures in the family from Hebrew, Greek, or French into English.
Page 423 - disgusted at the subject' he proposes to be debated in our future correspondence. "It does not 'terrify me' to hear that a person whom I sincerely love, and for whose character I have the truest regard, has entertained some doubts which he cannot entirely get over, concerning a book which his earliest instructors recommended to him as the word of God. It is certainly the duty of every rational creature to bring his religion to the strictest test, and to retain or reject the faith in which he has...
Page 48 - I do not see how it is reconcileable with either, to throw aside those entertainments of a rational, a friendly, and a religious nature, which you yourself think you may find in me, merely that you may eat and drink more sumptuously, and wear better clothes, with some of those people whom the word of God already brands as fools. Madam, I must presume so far as to say that it is neither the part of a Christian, nor a friend, to keep me in such a continual uneasiness.