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afterwards became blessing called Canstein Cherokee Christ church circulation circumstances colours commenced course death desire devoted duties earth ELEAZAR WHEELOCK eminent employed faith father Francke fulness gave Grammar Grantham groschen habit Hale Hebrew Holy Scriptures honour Hughes Hughes's India institution Isaac Newton John JOHN WATSON labour language Latin Latin language laws learning light lived London Longnor Lord Cornwallis Lord Teignmouth Ludwick ment mind missionaries mother Nassau Hall never observation occasion piety pious pounds sterling promote pursuits religion religious removed residence respect Rhode Island scholar Se-quo-yah sent sickness Sir Isaac Sir Isaac Newton Sir John Shore SIR MATTHEW SIR MATTHEW HALE soon Spener spirit talents taught Testament thing thou thought tion took waterclock Watson Wheelock Woolsthorpe word young youth
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Página 150 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 77 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Página 22 - I never wanted time, in my six days, to ripen and fit myself for the businesses and employments I had to do, though I borrowed not one minute from the Lord's day to prepare for it, by study or otherwise. But, on the other hand, if I had at any time borrowed from this day any time for my secular employments, I found that it did further me less than if I had let it alone ; and therefore, when some years...
Página 181 - ... an arrangement, which not only redounds highly to his own honour, but which will also operate to the reciprocal advantage of the Company and the Nabob.
Página 1 - Upon which the lord chief baron interrupted him, and said he did not deal fairly to come to his chamber about such affairs, for he never received any information of causes but in open court, where both parties were to be heard alike...
Página 15 - The last year of his being in London, he came always on Sundays, when he could go abroad, to the chapel of the Rolls, where I then preached. In my life I never saw so much gravity tempered with that sweetness, and set off with so much vivacity, as appeared in his looks and behaviour, which disposed me to a veneration for him, which I never had for any with whom I was not acquainted.