The Works of Mrs. Sherwood: Being the Only Uniform Edition Ever Published in the United States ...Harper & Brothers, 1837 - English literature |
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... idea of my own consequence , and am very well contented to be considered nothing more than an obscure Welsh gentle- man , who does not think it beneath him to travel from place to place in a public vehicle . " It was when I was in my ...
... idea of my own consequence , and am very well contented to be considered nothing more than an obscure Welsh gentle- man , who does not think it beneath him to travel from place to place in a public vehicle . " It was when I was in my ...
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... idea of dependance , and the best view we can have of liberty is , that state of mind by which we are enabled to conform , with most ease to ourselves , to the circumstances of our situations . The yoke does not gall when we cease to ...
... idea of dependance , and the best view we can have of liberty is , that state of mind by which we are enabled to conform , with most ease to ourselves , to the circumstances of our situations . The yoke does not gall when we cease to ...
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... idea that I never had , and never could have , more than one uncle ; yet I have given for the title of my story my three uncles . How is this to be explained how is one man to be multiplied into three ? This is what I am about to make ...
... idea that I never had , and never could have , more than one uncle ; yet I have given for the title of my story my three uncles . How is this to be explained how is one man to be multiplied into three ? This is what I am about to make ...
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... idea of my being harsh , severe , and strict , might easily arise , ” replied my uncle , “ from my hav- ing always kept you and my children within my own domain , and not having encouraged you to communi- cate much with other young ...
... idea of my being harsh , severe , and strict , might easily arise , ” replied my uncle , “ from my hav- ing always kept you and my children within my own domain , and not having encouraged you to communi- cate much with other young ...
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... ideas as might have been expected , considering the examples which were continually set before me . When I was fourteen , the lady who had brought me to England procured me the situation of a midshipman in a vessel of the line , and I ...
... ideas as might have been expected , considering the examples which were continually set before me . When I was fourteen , the lady who had brought me to England procured me the situation of a midshipman in a vessel of the line , and I ...
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Page 149 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 322 - What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 364 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 327 - The waters wear the stones : thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Page 173 - JESUS, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress ; 'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.
Page 315 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page 404 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 292 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Page 325 - Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.