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Page xiv
... means exercising spiritual care over those who are " as sheep having no shepherd . " It has been a favourite phrase with some minds , to term the Established Church the Church of the poor , and with others to speak of Methodism as the ...
... means exercising spiritual care over those who are " as sheep having no shepherd . " It has been a favourite phrase with some minds , to term the Established Church the Church of the poor , and with others to speak of Methodism as the ...
Page xv
... means , but the Society must look through the means to the hand that moves them , to Him that " sitteth upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers , " Isa . xl . 22 . Respecting the prosecution of ...
... means , but the Society must look through the means to the hand that moves them , to Him that " sitteth upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers , " Isa . xl . 22 . Respecting the prosecution of ...
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... means managed to introduce a silver tube into the gullet . Prison regulations were at that period very lax . As many as ten and even more persons would be executed at Newgate at once , and the care which is now exercised was not taken ...
... means managed to introduce a silver tube into the gullet . Prison regulations were at that period very lax . As many as ten and even more persons would be executed at Newgate at once , and the care which is now exercised was not taken ...
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... means to get my bread honestly . " This man further remarked in illustration of his truthful sentiment respecting dishonesty , that there was " no luck in it , " that he had had lots of money , but it all went , to use his own expres ...
... means to get my bread honestly . " This man further remarked in illustration of his truthful sentiment respecting dishonesty , that there was " no luck in it , " that he had had lots of money , but it all went , to use his own expres ...
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... means alone by the lowest classes . I am acquainted with four fortune - tellers , who lived within the limits of a single street , and who appeared to have been visited by persons of a character that would hardly be supposed to place ...
... means alone by the lowest classes . I am acquainted with four fortune - tellers , who lived within the limits of a single street , and who appeared to have been visited by persons of a character that would hardly be supposed to place ...
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Page 31 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 147 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 219 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 133 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 59 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 338 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 331 - ... THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale...
Page 209 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 335 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 40 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.