Clarissa, ed. by E.S. Dallas, Volume 3;Volume 266

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Pagina 95 - When Thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, Thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity.
Pagina 211 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Pagina 99 - Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Pagina 18 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Pagina 99 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Pagina 99 - When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Pagina 264 - One faded cheek rested upon the good woman's bosom, the kindly warmth of which had overspread it with a faint, but charming flush; the other paler and hollow as if already iced over by death. Her hands, white as the lily, with her meandering veins more transparently blue than ever I had seen even hers (veins so soon, alas!
Pagina 94 - Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth. Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.
Pagina 301 - Methuselah, who, as we read in the Scriptures, was the longest liver that was of a man, died at the last : for, as the Preacher saith, there is a time to be born and a time to die ; and the day of death is better than the day of our birth.
Pagina 104 - Lovelace], and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.

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