Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... duty bound to do , we had given our first attention to the temple , where so important a change had been wrought in Bunyan's mind , we desired to return to the green ' and see how time had dealt with the Green - house , ' while we ...
... duty bound to do , we had given our first attention to the temple , where so important a change had been wrought in Bunyan's mind , we desired to return to the green ' and see how time had dealt with the Green - house , ' while we ...
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... duty of government to provide ; but he was not led into those sins which infix a deeper stain . Pious enthusiasts are just as prone in our own day to self - condemnation as was John Bunyan ; they plough up their hearts , if we may so ...
... duty of government to provide ; but he was not led into those sins which infix a deeper stain . Pious enthusiasts are just as prone in our own day to self - condemnation as was John Bunyan ; they plough up their hearts , if we may so ...
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... duty , and neglected it not , but wiled her husband tenderly and lovingly into the right path , bearing with his frailties and yet steadfast in her faith and in her love ; meek and patient , yet having the great end of his conversion in ...
... duty , and neglected it not , but wiled her husband tenderly and lovingly into the right path , bearing with his frailties and yet steadfast in her faith and in her love ; meek and patient , yet having the great end of his conversion in ...
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... duties , ' are so frequently unfulfilled but that he tenderly loved his wife and children there can be no doubt ; there is no record of the date of his first wife's death , no telling how or when her simple , chastened , and believing ...
... duties , ' are so frequently unfulfilled but that he tenderly loved his wife and children there can be no doubt ; there is no record of the date of his first wife's death , no telling how or when her simple , chastened , and believing ...
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... duties were performed , yet as no functions are ever discharged , so no rewards are acquired by the holder ; it is therefore only in the eye of the law ' that it is an office of emolument . ' No such office can be conferred by the Crown ...
... duties were performed , yet as no functions are ever discharged , so no rewards are acquired by the holder ; it is therefore only in the eye of the law ' that it is an office of emolument . ' No such office can be conferred by the Crown ...
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Popular passages
Page 93 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 108 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 11 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 47 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 62 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them, Rev.
Page 236 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to...
Page 237 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 288 - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wantin'g beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
Page 87 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 88 - expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.