The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 87
... Sins committed and also of all duties neglected in my union with the Wife whom thou has taken from me , for the neglect of joint devotion , patient exhortation , and mild instruction ' . The next day he went to Bromley where she lay ...
... Sins committed and also of all duties neglected in my union with the Wife whom thou has taken from me , for the neglect of joint devotion , patient exhortation , and mild instruction ' . The next day he went to Bromley where she lay ...
Page 107
... sins , to lament his recurrent religious doubts , his ' idleness , intemperate sleep , dilatoriness , immethodical ... sin ' , he might ' at last work out his salvation with diligence and constancy ' . ' Purify my thoughts from ...
... sins , to lament his recurrent religious doubts , his ' idleness , intemperate sleep , dilatoriness , immethodical ... sin ' , he might ' at last work out his salvation with diligence and constancy ' . ' Purify my thoughts from ...
Page 121
... sins before the miseries of age fall upon me , and that while my strength yet remains I may use it to thy glory and my own salvation , by the assistance of thy Holy Spirit , for Jesus Christ's sake . Amen . ' He made a list of ...
... sins before the miseries of age fall upon me , and that while my strength yet remains I may use it to thy glory and my own salvation , by the assistance of thy Holy Spirit , for Jesus Christ's sake . Amen . ' He made a list of ...
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