The Christian Father's Present to His Children, Τόμος 2Jonathan Leavitt, 1827 |
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Σελίδα 15
... looks tame and common - place . The ef- fect of such works is great for the time , but it is not a useful effect : it is like the influence of ardent spirits , which fits men for desperate ad- ventures , but not for the more steady and ...
... looks tame and common - place . The ef- fect of such works is great for the time , but it is not a useful effect : it is like the influence of ardent spirits , which fits men for desperate ad- ventures , but not for the more steady and ...
Σελίδα 21
... look upon dancing among these , to be a practice fraught with immorality ; and my soul is horrified at this moment by re- membering the details of a most tragic event which occurred in this neighbourhood , a few years since , to an ...
... look upon dancing among these , to be a practice fraught with immorality ; and my soul is horrified at this moment by re- membering the details of a most tragic event which occurred in this neighbourhood , a few years since , to an ...
Σελίδα 23
... looks , the fond inquiries , the interesting though unim- portant conversation of all , would recruit my strength , and recreate my mind . But I am far from these . I am in a distant town , a stranger in a strange place ; a mere lodger ...
... looks , the fond inquiries , the interesting though unim- portant conversation of all , would recruit my strength , and recreate my mind . But I am far from these . I am in a distant town , a stranger in a strange place ; a mere lodger ...
Σελίδα 24
... look , or cheerless greeting of the hostess , instead of the smiling countenance and fond expression of the mother that bore me , the father that loved me . I too have retired to my room to weep at thoughts of home . I can there- fore ...
... look , or cheerless greeting of the hostess , instead of the smiling countenance and fond expression of the mother that bore me , the father that loved me . I too have retired to my room to weep at thoughts of home . I can there- fore ...
Σελίδα 33
... look with a tolerating eye upon the stage . The morality of the stage and of the Gos- pel are as diametrically opposed to each other as the east and the west . They stand thus opposed to each other : -pride to humility ; am- bition to ...
... look with a tolerating eye upon the stage . The morality of the stage and of the Gos- pel are as diametrically opposed to each other as the east and the west . They stand thus opposed to each other : -pride to humility ; am- bition to ...
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Σελίδα 51 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Σελίδα 24 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Σελίδα 68 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Σελίδα 117 - O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord...
Σελίδα 69 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Σελίδα 153 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Σελίδα 67 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Σελίδα 126 - Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Σελίδα 44 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Σελίδα 153 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.