The memoirs of the late miss Emma Humphries, with a series of letters to young ladies ... and to parents1817 |
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... and final happiness of his readers , and he is comparatively indifferent to censure or applause , if this object be accomplished . Frome , August 26 , 1817 . CONTENTS . MEMOIRS , Page 1 . LETTERS TO YOUNG viii PREFACE .
... and final happiness of his readers , and he is comparatively indifferent to censure or applause , if this object be accomplished . Frome , August 26 , 1817 . CONTENTS . MEMOIRS , Page 1 . LETTERS TO YOUNG viii PREFACE .
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... comparatively useless , unless Parents co - operate . The power of influence . The preservation of the Church certain , yet great losses often sustained by death , which must be repaired by fresh accessions . - The claims of the world ...
... comparatively useless , unless Parents co - operate . The power of influence . The preservation of the Church certain , yet great losses often sustained by death , which must be repaired by fresh accessions . - The claims of the world ...
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... Comparatively few incidents may be worth recording , but the gradual ascendancy of divine truth on your heart , is too important to be only casually noticed . To watch its pro- gress , and observe the means which the Holy Spirit employs ...
... Comparatively few incidents may be worth recording , but the gradual ascendancy of divine truth on your heart , is too important to be only casually noticed . To watch its pro- gress , and observe the means which the Holy Spirit employs ...
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... comparatively inno- cent mind ; but do they not decisively prove that your nature is depraved in common with ours ? Do they not stand amidst the ruins of their re- putation , as beacons to warn us of our mutual danger ? A But as you ...
... comparatively inno- cent mind ; but do they not decisively prove that your nature is depraved in common with ours ? Do they not stand amidst the ruins of their re- putation , as beacons to warn us of our mutual danger ? A But as you ...
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... comparatively free from improper images , is now incessantly haunted by many , which the purity of her principles forbids her to retain , but which , from long familiarity , she is incapable of dismissing . Such reading is the enchanted ...
... comparatively free from improper images , is now incessantly haunted by many , which the purity of her principles forbids her to retain , but which , from long familiarity , she is incapable of dismissing . Such reading is the enchanted ...
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Página 190 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 78 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 37 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 209 - Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Página 26 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Página 168 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Página 61 - Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Página 193 - These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Página 71 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Página 62 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.