Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter: With a New Edition of Her Poems; to which are Added, Some Miscellaneous Essays in Prose, Together with Her Notes on the Bible, and Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, Volume 2F.C. & J. Rivington, 1816 - 501 pages |
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Page 348 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 124 - For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Page 134 - The gloomy clouds brightened into cheerful sunshine, the groves recovered their verdure, and the whole region looked gay and blooming as the garden of Eden.
Page 64 - With joy I hear the solemn sound, Which midnight echoes waft around, And sighing gales repeat: Fav'rite of Pallas ! I attend, . And, faithful to thy summons, bend At Wisdom's awful seat.
Page 135 - is this the language of RELIGION ? Does she lead her votaries through flowery paths, and bid them pass an unlaborious life ? Where are the painful toils of virtue, the mortifications of penitents, the self-denying exercises of saints and heroes ?" " The true enjoyments of a reasonable being...
Page 132 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world ; and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be •wretched. This is the condition of all below the •» - • , . stars; and whoever endeavours to oppose it, acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Page 132 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death. Her looks were filled with terror and unrelenting severity, and her hands armed with whips and scorpions.
Page 347 - For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? 26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels. 27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Page 138 - Return then, with me, from continual misery, to moderate enjoyment, and grateful alacrity. Return from the contracted views of solitude, to the proper duties of a relative and dependent being.
Page 136 - Yielding to immoral pleasure corrupts the mind, living to animal and trifling ones debases it ; both in their degree disqualify it for its genuine good, and consign it over to wretchedness. Whoever would be really happy must make the diligent and regular exercise of his superior powers his chief attention, adoring the perfections of his Maker, expressing good will to his fellow-creatures, cultivating inward rectitude.