The Life of Lady Guion, Volume 1Abraham Shearman, 1805 - 374 pages |
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Page 37
... follow- ed it when I found nobody to turn me from it . Young as I was , I loved to hear of God , to be at church , and drest in the habit of a little nun . One day imagining the frightful notions , which had been given me of Hell , were ...
... follow- ed it when I found nobody to turn me from it . Young as I was , I loved to hear of God , to be at church , and drest in the habit of a little nun . One day imagining the frightful notions , which had been given me of Hell , were ...
Page 47
... follows will surprize you much more , when you will see those manners of act- ing gather strength with age ; and that reason , far from correcting such an unreasonable procedure , serv- ed only to give more force and latitude to my sins ...
... follows will surprize you much more , when you will see those manners of act- ing gather strength with age ; and that reason , far from correcting such an unreasonable procedure , serv- ed only to give more force and latitude to my sins ...
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... follows him freely , and cannot but do it . The attraction is as free as infallible . And yet this Love never suffers any fault to slip with impunity . He punishes with rigour his dearest and most faithful lovers . All that I could All ...
... follows him freely , and cannot but do it . The attraction is as free as infallible . And yet this Love never suffers any fault to slip with impunity . He punishes with rigour his dearest and most faithful lovers . All that I could All ...
Page 118
... follow the impetuosity of the spirit which makes me write , which will be likely to happen to me sometimes ; ( wherefore , sir , I beg you to excuse the little regularity of this history which you have requir- ed of me , not being in a ...
... follow the impetuosity of the spirit which makes me write , which will be likely to happen to me sometimes ; ( wherefore , sir , I beg you to excuse the little regularity of this history which you have requir- ed of me , not being in a ...
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... follow him , and to drefs myself after a manner singular at my age .. Beside , my vanity furnished me with pretences , seem- ingly just , for following the mode . Oh if confessors , knew what hurt they do , in humouring female vani- ty ...
... follow him , and to drefs myself after a manner singular at my age .. Beside , my vanity furnished me with pretences , seem- ingly just , for following the mode . Oh if confessors , knew what hurt they do , in humouring female vani- ty ...
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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.