The Life of Lady Guion, Volume 1Abraham Shearman, 1805 - 374 pages |
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... condition . xxiv . Insolence of her waiting maid . ecclesiastic . Persecution from a disgusted xxv . Considerable suitors offer to her , but in vain . She falls ill to the last extremity . XXVI . She is basely and unworthily treated by ...
... condition . xxiv . Insolence of her waiting maid . ecclesiastic . Persecution from a disgusted xxv . Considerable suitors offer to her , but in vain . She falls ill to the last extremity . XXVI . She is basely and unworthily treated by ...
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... condition obliged her to . My mother grew jealous , fearing I should love my cousin too well , and herself too little . She who had left me in my young years to the care of her maids , and since that to my own , only enquiring if I was ...
... condition obliged her to . My mother grew jealous , fearing I should love my cousin too well , and herself too little . She who had left me in my young years to the care of her maids , and since that to my own , only enquiring if I was ...
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... condition . About eleven or twelve months after , we went to pass some days in the country . My father took along with us one of his near relations , who was a very ac- complished young gentleman . He had a great de- sire to marry me ...
... condition . About eleven or twelve months after , we went to pass some days in the country . My father took along with us one of his near relations , who was a very ac- complished young gentleman . He had a great de- sire to marry me ...
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... condition so different from that which I had found in thy presence : : but my tears were without effect , and my sorrows useless . I could not , of myself , get out of this unhappy condition . I wished some hand as charitable as ...
... condition so different from that which I had found in thy presence : : but my tears were without effect , and my sorrows useless . I could not , of myself , get out of this unhappy condition . I wished some hand as charitable as ...
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... condition of criminals ; and to beg of him the power to come out of this state ; they would then soon be changed , and brought out of the mire and clay . But the devil has falsely persuaded the doctors and the wise men of the age , that ...
... condition of criminals ; and to beg of him the power to come out of this state ; they would then soon be changed , and brought out of the mire and clay . But the devil has falsely persuaded the doctors and the wise men of the age , that ...
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Page 210 - Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 223 - I have had before me as a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day a policy of true Canadianism, of moderation, of conciliation.
Page 116 - Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon...
Page 210 - Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Page 261 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 328 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page xxii - Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 285 - And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter, and they that were with him, said, Master, the multitude throng thee, and press thee, and sayest thou. Who touched me? 46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me : for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Page 260 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Page 336 - For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am 1 in the midst of them.