Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs. Catharine CappeLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - 467 pages |
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... honoured Mother , in strict conformity with her wishes ; introducing only such verbal corrections as seemed to be absolutely required ; and of which , therefore , she is fully persuaded the venerable Author herself would have approved ...
... honoured Mother , in strict conformity with her wishes ; introducing only such verbal corrections as seemed to be absolutely required ; and of which , therefore , she is fully persuaded the venerable Author herself would have approved ...
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... honoured father .... His last illness and death . .... His epitaph .... Mr . Lindsey obtains Catterick . .... Pecuniary affairs not prosperous . CHAPTER XI . .. Splendour and hospitality of Nostel .... Venerable character of its owner ...
... honoured father .... His last illness and death . .... His epitaph .... Mr . Lindsey obtains Catterick . .... Pecuniary affairs not prosperous . CHAPTER XI . .. Splendour and hospitality of Nostel .... Venerable character of its owner ...
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... honour , by describing it as coming out of his hands loaded with the guilt of the primeval progenitor ; yet she is well aware that the road of life is a dan- gerous road ; that great care and vigilance are required , lest , by improper ...
... honour , by describing it as coming out of his hands loaded with the guilt of the primeval progenitor ; yet she is well aware that the road of life is a dan- gerous road ; that great care and vigilance are required , lest , by improper ...
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... honour , glory , and immortality , " are promised in the gospel , to those alone who excel in Christian virtue , then it assuredly follows , that those disappointments , pri- vations , and sorrows , which may eventually con- tribute to ...
... honour , glory , and immortality , " are promised in the gospel , to those alone who excel in Christian virtue , then it assuredly follows , that those disappointments , pri- vations , and sorrows , which may eventually con- tribute to ...
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... honour of my parents . If I had ever seen them on any occasion practise artifice or dissimulation , ( and children are extremely quick - sighted in discovering the faults of those who have any authority over them ) whatever they might ...
... honour of my parents . If I had ever seen them on any occasion practise artifice or dissimulation , ( and children are extremely quick - sighted in discovering the faults of those who have any authority over them ) whatever they might ...
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Ackton acquaintance affliction afterwards amiable anxiety appeared assistance attended aunts Badsworth Bedale benevolent brother Cappe Cappe's Catterick CHAPTER character Church circumstances comfort conduct connexions continued conversation Craven daughter dear death delight desire distressing duty effects endeavour exceedingly excellent extremely father favour female fortitude fortune Foundling hospital give habits happiness Harrogate heard heart honour hope interest knew labour lady late Leeds length letter Lindsey Lindsey's Liverpool living London Long Preston Lord lord Mulgrave Lord Rockingham manner marriage Memoir ment mentioned mind mother neighbouring never Newry nexions Nostel obtained occasion painful pecuniary perhaps persons pleasure possessed racter received resigned respect Sir Rowland Winn sister situation Skipton Sorell sorrow spirit Stank-house suffered talents thing thither thought timate tion treme truth Wellbeloved whilst whole wholly Winn wish York young
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Page 167 - Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Page 163 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 157 - ... his own sufferings, he changed the mode of attack, and asked him if he had a right to subject Mrs. L. to so many inconveniences and hardships? Here he found that his friend was not invulnerable ; his final resolution indeed, being the calm and deliberate result of many an anxious hour, he could not shake, but he could pour into the appointed cup, a tenfold portion of bitterness. I was at Catterick when Mr. L. returned thither, and never can I forget his altered looks, and depressed countenance...
Page 118 - L. having frequently been recognized in the streets of London by some of his former Sunday pupils, who gratefully acknowledged their obligations to him. After evening service, Mr. Lindsey received different classes of young men and women, on alternate Sundays in his study, for the purpose ot instruction ; and Mrs. Lindsey in like manner, in another apartment, had two classes of children, boys and girls alternately.
Page 117 - I WILL extol thee, my God, O king : and I will bless thy name forever and ever. Every day will I bless thee : and I will praise thy name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, 'and greatly to be praised ; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Page 28 - The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 452 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Page 376 - It was my happiness in my early youth to enjoy the privilege of his acquaintance and correspondence; and now, after the lapse of more than fifty years, I can truly say, that, in the course of a long life, I have never known an individual of a character more elevated and chivalric, acting according to a purer standard of morals, imbued with a higher sense of honor, and uniting more intimately the qualities of the gentleman, the soldier, the scholar, and the Christian.
Page 118 - Sunday, alternately to catechizing the children of the parish, and to expounding the Bible to the boys of a large school, which was at that time kept in the village. The number of...
Page 54 - So slow th' unprofitable moments roll That lock up all the functions of my soul, That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day ; That task which, as we follow or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise ; Which done, the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done, the richest must be poor.