The Christian Father's Present to His Children, Volumen2Jonathan Leavitt, 1827 |
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Página 14
... kind of revenge for the control which a fiction has had over us , we determine to forget all we have felt ? We cannot do this in rising from a fact . Fiction is generally overwrought . It is vice in carricature , or virtue in cnamel ...
... kind of revenge for the control which a fiction has had over us , we determine to forget all we have felt ? We cannot do this in rising from a fact . Fiction is generally overwrought . It is vice in carricature , or virtue in cnamel ...
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... kind of amusement may be innocently resorted to . Here two rules may be laid down . 1. All recreations are improper , which have an injurious influence upon the moral and religious character . This is an axiom . No reasoning is ...
... kind of amusement may be innocently resorted to . Here two rules may be laid down . 1. All recreations are improper , which have an injurious influence upon the moral and religious character . This is an axiom . No reasoning is ...
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... kind , are , in my view , condemned by the laws of humanity . Shooting , coursing , hunting , angling , are all cruel . What agony is inflicted in hooking a worm or a fish : in maiming a bird : in chasing and worrying a hare and to find ...
... kind , are , in my view , condemned by the laws of humanity . Shooting , coursing , hunting , angling , are all cruel . What agony is inflicted in hooking a worm or a fish : in maiming a bird : in chasing and worrying a hare and to find ...
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... kind 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 ...
... kind 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 ...
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... kind . After the dark and stormy epoch , which was terminated by the glorious revolution of 1688 , the churches of Christ , blessed with religious liberty , sunk to inglorious repose . Little was done , either to improve the moral ...
... kind . After the dark and stormy epoch , which was terminated by the glorious revolution of 1688 , the churches of Christ , blessed with religious liberty , sunk to inglorious repose . Little was done , either to improve the moral ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 117 - O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 44 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 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.