Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs. Catharine CappeLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - 467 pages |
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... received by them .... A revolution in their favour .... The Author's brother retires into Craven .... Summer spent among friends .... Decided to fix in York .... Reasons of that decision ...... .. don .... CHAPTER XXVIII . The Author ...
... received by them .... A revolution in their favour .... The Author's brother retires into Craven .... Summer spent among friends .... Decided to fix in York .... Reasons of that decision ...... .. don .... CHAPTER XXVIII . The Author ...
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... received the account in perfect silence ; and when the children burst out into loud lamentations , she calmly said , " Peace , children , this was the will of God , it must be ours to exert ourselves and do our duty ! " She was in every ...
... received the account in perfect silence ; and when the children burst out into loud lamentations , she calmly said , " Peace , children , this was the will of God , it must be ours to exert ourselves and do our duty ! " She was in every ...
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... receiving great pleasure from neatness , order , and the beauties of nature , much earlier than is usually imagined , and long before the period of their being able to analyse their sensations , or to explain their causes . Often did I ...
... receiving great pleasure from neatness , order , and the beauties of nature , much earlier than is usually imagined , and long before the period of their being able to analyse their sensations , or to explain their causes . Often did I ...
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... received a better education than was common for females of her day ; but it appeared rather in the whole of her manner , and in the elevation of her sentiments , than by any thing she had been expressly taught . For instance , she knew ...
... received a better education than was common for females of her day ; but it appeared rather in the whole of her manner , and in the elevation of her sentiments , than by any thing she had been expressly taught . For instance , she knew ...
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... received by them as perfectly oracular . CHAPTER 4 . Mischiefs from alarming the imagination of children .... Un- mixed , where the danger originates in fiction .... Pernicious even when founded in truth .... An instance of falsehood ...
... received by them as perfectly oracular . CHAPTER 4 . Mischiefs from alarming the imagination of children .... Un- mixed , where the danger originates in fiction .... Pernicious even when founded in truth .... An instance of falsehood ...
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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 359 - That to fear GOD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man...
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 6t instruction ; and Mrs. Lindsey in like manner, in another apartment, had two classes of children, boys and girls alternately.
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 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 463 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord: — Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them
Page 55 - 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.
Page 450 - 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.