Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 2J. Walker & Company, 1824 |
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... never lends an open ear to those defamatory reports and dark suggestions , which among the tribes of the censorious , circulate with so much rapidity , and meet with such ready accept- ance . He is not hasty to judge , and he requires ...
... never lends an open ear to those defamatory reports and dark suggestions , which among the tribes of the censorious , circulate with so much rapidity , and meet with such ready accept- ance . He is not hasty to judge , and he requires ...
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... never confounds under one general censure , all who belong to that party or sect . He charges them not with such consequences of their tenets , as they refuse and disavow . From one wrong opinion , he does not infer the subversion of ...
... never confounds under one general censure , all who belong to that party or sect . He charges them not with such consequences of their tenets , as they refuse and disavow . From one wrong opinion , he does not infer the subversion of ...
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... never to trust . Safety is purchased at too dear a rate , when , in order to secure it , we are obliged to be always clad in armour , and to live in perpetual hosti- lity with our fellows . This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ...
... never to trust . Safety is purchased at too dear a rate , when , in order to secure it , we are obliged to be always clad in armour , and to live in perpetual hosti- lity with our fellows . This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ...
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... Never was there a situation of more tender and vir- tuous joy , on the one hand ; nor , on the other , of more overwhelming confusion and conscious guilt . In the simple narration of the sacred historian , it is set before us with ...
... Never was there a situation of more tender and vir- tuous joy , on the one hand ; nor , on the other , of more overwhelming confusion and conscious guilt . In the simple narration of the sacred historian , it is set before us with ...
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... never in his life done wrong , be allowed the privilege of remaining inexorable . But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes , consider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson ...
... never in his life done wrong , be allowed the privilege of remaining inexorable . But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes , consider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson ...
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