Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton: Late of Ballitore, IrelandHarvey and Darton, 1822 - 221 pages |
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... natural taste for literature . Though he was twenty years of age when he began to learn the Latin language , yet , with genius and application united , he speedily became a good classical scholar , and even wrote pure and elegant Latin ...
... natural taste for literature . Though he was twenty years of age when he began to learn the Latin language , yet , with genius and application united , he speedily became a good classical scholar , and even wrote pure and elegant Latin ...
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... natural vivacity , drew him , in degree , from that watchfulness enjoined by the highest authority , and on which our safety and happiness depend ; and though preserved within the bounds of morality , the religious sensibility ...
... natural vivacity , drew him , in degree , from that watchfulness enjoined by the highest authority , and on which our safety and happiness depend ; and though preserved within the bounds of morality , the religious sensibility ...
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... her when , from youth and health , they might naturally have looked forward to many happy years : but the great Disposer of events , in his inscrutable wisdom , ordered otherwise . R. S. to " Ballitore , 2d of 1st Month 13.
... her when , from youth and health , they might naturally have looked forward to many happy years : but the great Disposer of events , in his inscrutable wisdom , ordered otherwise . R. S. to " Ballitore , 2d of 1st Month 13.
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... natural part , with specious titles for promoting virtue and render- ing vice odious ; yet , like subtle poison , gradually tending to the destruction of the root of virtue and innocence in the mind , and creating a dislike to reading ...
... natural part , with specious titles for promoting virtue and render- ing vice odious ; yet , like subtle poison , gradually tending to the destruction of the root of virtue and innocence in the mind , and creating a dislike to reading ...
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... natural pro- pensities , and that best wisdom was necessary to guide me through life . As my experience could not be much , there- fore I often begged for it . In course of time , some degree of zeal for the promotion of truth seemed ...
... natural pro- pensities , and that best wisdom was necessary to guide me through life . As my experience could not be much , there- fore I often begged for it . In course of time , some degree of zeal for the promotion of truth seemed ...
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11th Month 1st Month 2d Month 8th Month Abraham Shackleton acceptable affection affliction Almighty attend believe beloved blessing Carleton cause Christ church Clonmel comfort connexions creature DAUGHTER G Ballitore dear child dear cousin dear friend dear love DEAR MARGARET Deborah desire diligent Divine Divine Providence Dublin duty earth Edmund Burke Elizabeth Shackleton endeavour faithful favour feel gift gracious hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly holy honour hope humble humility John Pemberton JOHN THORP kind labour letter live Lord Lord's MARY LEADBEATER mercifully mercy mind mother Mountmellick ness peace pleased poor precious preserved received Richard Shackleton rienced ROBERT GRUBB Sarah Sarah Robert Sarah Taylor season sense sensible servant sincere solemn soul spirit sweet tender testimony thee thine things Thomas Carleton thou art thou hast thou mayst thou wilt tion trust truth watch way-marks wife wisdom wish worthy yearly meeting youth
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Page 216 - Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Page 49 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 117 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 184 - Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Page 199 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Page 49 - Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.
Page 204 - When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Page 207 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 215 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.