Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay: With an Appendix, Containing Extracts from Her Diary, Letters, and Other Private Papers; and Also, from Letters Written to Her by Her Father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776Burton and Briggs; sold also by J. Hatchard, 1815 - 259 pagina's A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy. |
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Pagina ix
... sweet resignation under the most painful disappointments , afflic- tions , and trials , in the fervour of her devotions , in the closet as well as in the family , and the sanctuary , and at the table of the Lord , in the overflowings of ...
... sweet resignation under the most painful disappointments , afflic- tions , and trials , in the fervour of her devotions , in the closet as well as in the family , and the sanctuary , and at the table of the Lord , in the overflowings of ...
Pagina 28
... sweet , and comfortable , if our hearts were better kept . 5th Aquaintance with the heart , furnishes a fountain of matter for prayer . 6th . By keeping the heart , the decayed power of religion , will be recovered among professors ...
... sweet , and comfortable , if our hearts were better kept . 5th Aquaintance with the heart , furnishes a fountain of matter for prayer . 6th . By keeping the heart , the decayed power of religion , will be recovered among professors ...
Pagina 31
... repentance ; and yet I am not cured . Oh sweet Jesus help . Oh friend of sinners , save . I know that it is an evil , and a bitter thing to depart from habit she acquired such complete command over her thoughts , MRS . RAMSAY . 31.
... repentance ; and yet I am not cured . Oh sweet Jesus help . Oh friend of sinners , save . I know that it is an evil , and a bitter thing to depart from habit she acquired such complete command over her thoughts , MRS . RAMSAY . 31.
Pagina 42
... sweet to look beyond our cage , And long to fly away . Sweet to look inward and attend The whispers of his love ; Sweet to look upward to the place Where Jesus dwells above . Sweet to look back and see my name In life's $ 42 MEMOIRS OF.
... sweet to look beyond our cage , And long to fly away . Sweet to look inward and attend The whispers of his love ; Sweet to look upward to the place Where Jesus dwells above . Sweet to look back and see my name In life's $ 42 MEMOIRS OF.
Pagina 43
... Sweet to look back and see my name In life's fair book set down ; Sweet to look forward and behold Eternal joys my own . Sweet to reflect how grace divine My sins on Jesus laid ; Sweet to remember that his blood- My debt of suff'ring paid .
... Sweet to look back and see my name In life's fair book set down ; Sweet to look forward and behold Eternal joys my own . Sweet to reflect how grace divine My sins on Jesus laid ; Sweet to remember that his blood- My debt of suff'ring paid .
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Pagina 155 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Pagina 20 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Pagina 74 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Pagina 145 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Pagina 34 - Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Pagina 35 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Pagina 86 - THEREFORE with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts ! heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Pagina 98 - Plenteous grace with thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin : Let the healing streams abound : Make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art. Freely let me take of thee : Spring thou up within my heart, Rise to all eternity.
Pagina 96 - Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer ; Trials bring me to his feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
Pagina 42 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.