The Life of Lady Guion, Volume 1Abraham Shearman, 1805 - 374 pages |
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... wished to en-- dure martyrdom . Those good girls , to divert them-- selves , and to see how far this rising fervency woulds carry me , bade me prepare myself for it . I prayed . to thee , my God , with ardour ; which being both new and ...
... wished to en-- dure martyrdom . Those good girls , to divert them-- selves , and to see how far this rising fervency woulds carry me , bade me prepare myself for it . I prayed . to thee , my God , with ardour ; which being both new and ...
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... wished to mortify myself ; but found self - love still too prevalent , to submit to such mortification . After this when they were cleaning out the chapel , they found behind the image what I had left there , and presently guessed that ...
... wished to mortify myself ; but found self - love still too prevalent , to submit to such mortification . After this when they were cleaning out the chapel , they found behind the image what I had left there , and presently guessed that ...
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... wished all the drops of water to be changed into love and prais- es . My heart was nourished insensibly with thy love ; and my spirit was incessantly engrossed with the remembrance of thee . I seemed to join and par- take in all the ...
... wished all the drops of water to be changed into love and prais- es . My heart was nourished insensibly with thy love ; and my spirit was incessantly engrossed with the remembrance of thee . I seemed to join and par- take in all the ...
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... wished some hand as charitable as powerful , would have ex- tricated me out of it but as for myself , I had not power to do it . I was ( like the prophet ) in a deep abyss of mire , which I could not get out of . I met with reprimands ...
... wished some hand as charitable as powerful , would have ex- tricated me out of it but as for myself , I had not power to do it . I was ( like the prophet ) in a deep abyss of mire , which I could not get out of . I met with reprimands ...
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... I called politeness , was observed there . I was very much surprized at this change ; so much the more , as my vanity wished to increase , rather than to be diminished . 7 At the time of my marriage I was a G 2 CH . VI . ] 69 LADY GUION .
... I called politeness , was observed there . I was very much surprized at this change ; so much the more , as my vanity wished to increase , rather than to be diminished . 7 At the time of my marriage I was a G 2 CH . VI . ] 69 LADY GUION .
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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.