Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck ...: Containing The Young Christian's Guide ... : A Treatise on Religious Experience ... : Together with Anecdotes ...W.W. Woodward, 1808 - Christian ethics |
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... USEFUL OBSERVATIONS . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . Philadelphia : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. W. WCCDWARD , CORNER OF SECOND AND CHESNUT STREETS . 1 ( RECAP ) 5012 ... 219 W3 RELIGIOUS , MORAL 1808 . MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE ...
... USEFUL OBSERVATIONS . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . Philadelphia : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. W. WCCDWARD , CORNER OF SECOND AND CHESNUT STREETS . 1 ( RECAP ) 5012 ... 219 W3 RELIGIOUS , MORAL 1808 . MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE ...
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... volumes and papers , until he was overpowered with sleep : with all this intense application to reading , his knowledge was well estimated in the observa- tion applied to him , that he was a learned man among booksellers , and a ...
... volumes and papers , until he was overpowered with sleep : with all this intense application to reading , his knowledge was well estimated in the observa- tion applied to him , that he was a learned man among booksellers , and a ...
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... volume . Shenstone , the poet , learned to read of an old dame , whom his Poem of the Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity ; and soon received such de . light from books , that he was always calling for fresh entertainment , and ...
... volume . Shenstone , the poet , learned to read of an old dame , whom his Poem of the Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity ; and soon received such de . light from books , that he was always calling for fresh entertainment , and ...
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... volume resting in his bo- som , an arrow , from some unknown quarter , lighted on his breast , and must have killed him immediately , if the book had not intercepted the point of the weapon in its way to his heart . At last they judge ...
... volume resting in his bo- som , an arrow , from some unknown quarter , lighted on his breast , and must have killed him immediately , if the book had not intercepted the point of the weapon in its way to his heart . At last they judge ...
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... volumes . These instances are not selected to imply that a learned education ought to be given to females in general . They are sufficient , however , I think , to decide the controversy respecting the intellectual talents of women ...
... volumes . These instances are not selected to imply that a learned education ought to be given to females in general . They are sufficient , however , I think , to decide the controversy respecting the intellectual talents of women ...
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Page 313 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 106 - Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Page 216 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Page 74 - Westminster, while the court was sitting, and be whipped ; after whipping, be set upon the pillory a convenient time, and have one of his ears cut off, one side of his nose slit...
Page 206 - He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life, and used to say : — It was as great a dishonour as a man was capable of, that for a little money he was to be hired to say or do otherwise than as he thought.
Page 314 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 150 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 26 - If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Page 119 - ... she hoped he would do nothing against his conscience, for fear of any danger or prejudice to him, or his family • and that she would be contented to suffer want or any misery with him, rather than be an occasion for him to do, or say any thing against his judgment and conscience.
Page 215 - ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm...