The last of the old squires; a sketch by Cedric Oldacre1854 |
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... Vicar of the Parish , to whom he was greatly attached , had once told him that he learned to model all his Sermons after these Sentences , which he had marked off in his Copy of Bishop WILSON's Sacra Privata . " With what Truth can it ...
... Vicar of the Parish , to whom he was greatly attached , had once told him that he learned to model all his Sermons after these Sentences , which he had marked off in his Copy of Bishop WILSON's Sacra Privata . " With what Truth can it ...
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... Vicar , much to THE LAST OF THE OLD SQUIRES ' Content , who hung upon his Words— fo earnest ! fo foul - ftirring - like the lowlieft of the Congregation . To him GEORGE HER- BERT'S Words were no vain Words , but real- ized every one ...
... Vicar , much to THE LAST OF THE OLD SQUIRES ' Content , who hung upon his Words— fo earnest ! fo foul - ftirring - like the lowlieft of the Congregation . To him GEORGE HER- BERT'S Words were no vain Words , but real- ized every one ...
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... Vicar were well agreed . But he did not know that the Parfon had been dipping into Luther's COLLOQUIA MENSALIA , when he said , with much Emotion , " Truly , I am lefs afraid of the Pope and his Tyrants , than I am of our own ...
... Vicar were well agreed . But he did not know that the Parfon had been dipping into Luther's COLLOQUIA MENSALIA , when he said , with much Emotion , " Truly , I am lefs afraid of the Pope and his Tyrants , than I am of our own ...
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... Vicar had told him , " Let a Man LIGHTFOOT'S ever go to Morning and Evening Prayer in the Synagogue ; and every one that hath a Synagogue in his City and prayeth not in it with the Con- gregation , he is called AN EVIL NEIGHBOUR . " It ...
... Vicar had told him , " Let a Man LIGHTFOOT'S ever go to Morning and Evening Prayer in the Synagogue ; and every one that hath a Synagogue in his City and prayeth not in it with the Con- gregation , he is called AN EVIL NEIGHBOUR . " It ...
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... Vicar knew how to use it , when wandering Preachers would but be fpeaking smooth things and prophefying Deceits . " And certainly this is what the vo- luntary Syftem often led to , and there was much Truth in the Views of the good old ...
... Vicar knew how to use it , when wandering Preachers would but be fpeaking smooth things and prophefying Deceits . " And certainly this is what the vo- luntary Syftem often led to , and there was much Truth in the Views of the good old ...
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Page 46 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers...
Page 99 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 14 - Ill fares the land, to haft'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd.
Page 3 - Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war...
Page 35 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page vi - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 117 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Page 99 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Page 100 - For those of the ancienter members of her communion, who have all along owned and contended for a strict conformity to her rules and sanctions, as the surest course to establish her, have been of late represented, or rather reprobated, under the inodiating character of high churchmen, and thereby stand marked out for all the discouragement that spite and power together can pass upon them; while...
Page 99 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...