Letters to a Young Lady: On a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects. Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Form the Manners and Enlighten the Understanding ...William Fessenden, 1811 - 318 pages |
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... beauty , and seemingly constructed for our gratification . Lovely picturesque views de . light our imagination ; shrubs and plants and flowers regale us with aromatic smells . But a poet of very discriptive talents , shall speak on this ...
... beauty , and seemingly constructed for our gratification . Lovely picturesque views de . light our imagination ; shrubs and plants and flowers regale us with aromatic smells . But a poet of very discriptive talents , shall speak on this ...
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... beauty to his eye , Or music to his ear ; well pleas'd he scans The goodly prospect , and with inward smiles , Treads the gay verdure of the painted plain , Beholds the azure canopy of heav'n , And living lamps , that overarch his head ...
... beauty to his eye , Or music to his ear ; well pleas'd he scans The goodly prospect , and with inward smiles , Treads the gay verdure of the painted plain , Beholds the azure canopy of heav'n , And living lamps , that overarch his head ...
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... beauty and splen- dor . " There shall be new heavens and a new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . The wolf shall dwell with the lamb , and the leopard lie down with the kid , when the earth is full of the knowl- eige of the Lord ...
... beauty and splen- dor . " There shall be new heavens and a new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . The wolf shall dwell with the lamb , and the leopard lie down with the kid , when the earth is full of the knowl- eige of the Lord ...
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... beauty of all writings . A relig ious discourse should tend only to the enforcing of one grand point . This should , always , be kept in sight , and the way to it should be as direct , concise and simple , as possible . Divines of the ...
... beauty of all writings . A relig ious discourse should tend only to the enforcing of one grand point . This should , always , be kept in sight , and the way to it should be as direct , concise and simple , as possible . Divines of the ...
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... beauty of his metaphors , and that spirit of philanthropy , which pervades the whole , and does , all along , more honor to his heart , than his easy periods , to his understanding . There is something in the climate of Italy which ...
... beauty of his metaphors , and that spirit of philanthropy , which pervades the whole , and does , all along , more honor to his heart , than his easy periods , to his understanding . There is something in the climate of Italy which ...
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Page 284 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 98 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 24 - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
Page 290 - ... eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God has prepared for them that love him; — nor yet, I may add, the wrath which he has prepared for those who do not love him.
Page 14 - But if God doth so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more shall he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 184 - O shades of Hagley, where is now your boast ? Your bright inhabitant is lost, You she preferr'd to all the gay resorts Where female vanity might wish to shine, The pomp of cities, and the pride of courts.
Page 133 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world, by our Lord Jesus Christ ; for the means of grace ; and for the hope of glory.
Page 13 - The impassion'd soul? and whence the robes of light Which thus invest her with more lovely pomp Than Fancy can describe? Whence but from Thee, O source divine of ever-flowing love! And Thy unmeasured goodness?
Page 156 - Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Page 184 - And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love.