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... labours more abundant , " and to incur displeasure for doing real and positive good . I was once deemed eccen- tric , for giving useful lectures in public institutions , though by such eccentricity , I secured large audiences and helped ...
... labours more abundant , " and to incur displeasure for doing real and positive good . I was once deemed eccen- tric , for giving useful lectures in public institutions , though by such eccentricity , I secured large audiences and helped ...
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... labours , or any one thing , by which men might see that , taking him altogether , he is as good as most of his neighbours . It having so happened that Metho- dism , in its earlier periods , from good motives , though under mistaken ...
... labours , or any one thing , by which men might see that , taking him altogether , he is as good as most of his neighbours . It having so happened that Metho- dism , in its earlier periods , from good motives , though under mistaken ...
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... labour when he ceases to bother himself , or anybody else , about getting what is never likely to be granted , and which , should it come too late , will be worth nothing . It has long been the fashion to talk and write about ...
... labour when he ceases to bother himself , or anybody else , about getting what is never likely to be granted , and which , should it come too late , will be worth nothing . It has long been the fashion to talk and write about ...
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... labour , but a religious relaxation . Much against the will , then , we stick fast in the non - improvement system . Yet we ... labours , think- ing it possible , just possible , that is all , that some time or other , nobody knows when ...
... labour , but a religious relaxation . Much against the will , then , we stick fast in the non - improvement system . Yet we ... labours , think- ing it possible , just possible , that is all , that some time or other , nobody knows when ...
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... labours more abundant " The dignity of not making * Shame on the cruel things that do it . To the great honour of the Wesleyan Conference , jilting is punished with severity , and in some gross cases with expulsion . such a fuss about a ...
... labours more abundant " The dignity of not making * Shame on the cruel things that do it . To the great honour of the Wesleyan Conference , jilting is punished with severity , and in some gross cases with expulsion . such a fuss about a ...
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Page 146 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Page 201 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 96 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Page 57 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 162 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 128 - And he was angry, and would not go in : therefore came his father out, and entreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment : and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends : but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Page 128 - And he said unto him ; Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Page 152 - O full of all subtilty, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all right'eousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the lord...
Page 17 - The' illustrious stranger passing, terror sheds On gazing -nations from his fiery train, Of length enormous, takes his ample round Through depths of ether ; coasts unnumber'd worlds Of more than solar glory; doubles wide Heaven's mighty cape; and then revisits earth, From the long travel of a thousand years.
Page 128 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.