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... person has a very tenacious memory , and has read them carefully , it often costs more time to find some half - forgotten anec- dote than it is worth . One great effort of the writer in this work has been to obviate these difficulties ...
... person has a very tenacious memory , and has read them carefully , it often costs more time to find some half - forgotten anec- dote than it is worth . One great effort of the writer in this work has been to obviate these difficulties ...
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... persons to religion as spurious and hypocritical , who do not approve of and practise total abstinence from ardent spirits . In a town where there has been a revival the past winter , there is a person who has been from a child in the ...
... persons to religion as spurious and hypocritical , who do not approve of and practise total abstinence from ardent spirits . In a town where there has been a revival the past winter , there is a person who has been from a child in the ...
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... person had occasion to purchase some whisky for medicinal purposes , and then the cry was raised against him by opposers , that he had no religion , and that the purchase of the whisky proved his hypocrisy ! ( e ) DEACON BARNES AND THE ...
... person had occasion to purchase some whisky for medicinal purposes , and then the cry was raised against him by opposers , that he had no religion , and that the purchase of the whisky proved his hypocrisy ! ( e ) DEACON BARNES AND THE ...
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... person . " ( k ) A GOOD WIFE . - The Rev. William Jay , of Bath ( England ) , on the fiftieth anniversary of his ... persons who were proscribed under the second tri- umvirate of Rome , were the celebrated orator Cicero and his brother ...
... person . " ( k ) A GOOD WIFE . - The Rev. William Jay , of Bath ( England ) , on the fiftieth anniversary of his ... persons who were proscribed under the second tri- umvirate of Rome , were the celebrated orator Cicero and his brother ...
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... person . Accordingly , the two generous youths appeared at the gates of the city , one of them carrying their father , and the other their mother . ( d ) A PRISONER RESCUED BY HIS DAUGHTER . - M . Delleglaie being ordered from a dungeon ...
... person . Accordingly , the two generous youths appeared at the gates of the city , one of them carrying their father , and the other their mother . ( d ) A PRISONER RESCUED BY HIS DAUGHTER . - M . Delleglaie being ordered from a dungeon ...
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Cyclopædia of moral and religious anecdotes. Ed. by J. Flesher Kazlitt Arvine Volledige weergave - 1877 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Pagina 384 - The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Pagina 332 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the...
Pagina 438 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Pagina 134 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Pagina 50 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Pagina 468 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Pagina 135 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Pagina 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Pagina 611 - The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.