A Sketch of My Friend's Family: Intended to Suggest Some Practical Hints on Religion and Domestic Mannersauthor; Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - 134 páginas |
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... Providence , expressive of divine condescension , and suited to human nature ? Is it consoling to the heart , under a sense of guilt , to be assured of pardon ? Does moral ex- cellence , made perfect by suffering , seem to be a ...
... Providence , expressive of divine condescension , and suited to human nature ? Is it consoling to the heart , under a sense of guilt , to be assured of pardon ? Does moral ex- cellence , made perfect by suffering , seem to be a ...
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... providence may in like manner prepare the heart . " I wound and I heal , I kill and I make alive . " To that Being , in whose hand our life is , and who alone can make us happy , let us devote ourselves . Select passages of scripture ...
... providence may in like manner prepare the heart . " I wound and I heal , I kill and I make alive . " To that Being , in whose hand our life is , and who alone can make us happy , let us devote ourselves . Select passages of scripture ...
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... Providence . The art of rising in life is at last the object . Concerning po- litics in this sense , Lord Bacon observes , and perhaps the observation was verified in him- self , that " unless the young be instructed in religious and ...
... Providence . The art of rising in life is at last the object . Concerning po- litics in this sense , Lord Bacon observes , and perhaps the observation was verified in him- self , that " unless the young be instructed in religious and ...
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... providence of a Father in heaven . Those who minis- ter at death - beds , know that the young are susceptible of divine consolation ; that un- der its sacred influence they suffer in pa- tience , and comfort their weeping parents , and ...
... providence of a Father in heaven . Those who minis- ter at death - beds , know that the young are susceptible of divine consolation ; that un- der its sacred influence they suffer in pa- tience , and comfort their weeping parents , and ...
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... Providence to sustain many severe trials , which she bore in the noblest manner . She had the anguish of seeing her hopes cut off , one after another , by the death of most of her children , after they had grown up with some portion of ...
... Providence to sustain many severe trials , which she bore in the noblest manner . She had the anguish of seeing her hopes cut off , one after another , by the death of most of her children , after they had grown up with some portion of ...
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Página 135 - And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him ; and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Página 74 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 121 - Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Página 39 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Página 72 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Página 95 - ... meanest things that are— As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 133 - Heaven : these are the matchless joys of virtuous love; and thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, as ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, still find them happy...
Página 19 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Página 164 - ... sensible manner, that mighty power which prevails throughout, acting with a force and efficacy that appears to suffer no diminution from the greatest distances of space or intervals of time; and that wisdom which we see equally displayed in the exquisite structure and just motions of the greatest and subtilest parts. These, with perfect goodness, by which they are evidently directed, constitute the supreme object of the speculations of a philosopher; who, while he contemplates and admires so...