The Life of William WilberforceProtestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1857 - 767 Seiten |
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... heard his melodious voice calling aloud to me to come and sit with him before I went to bed . It was a dan- gerous thing to do , for his amusing conversation was sure to keep me up so late that I was behindhand the next morning . " He ...
... heard his melodious voice calling aloud to me to come and sit with him before I went to bed . It was a dan- gerous thing to do , for his amusing conversation was sure to keep me up so late that I was behindhand the next morning . " He ...
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... heard and listened to in all her borders , * and clubs and club - houses cease to be the resort of the young who constitute her hope . In spite of his life of gayety , Mr. Wilberforce attend- ed closely to the House of Commons . He was ...
... heard and listened to in all her borders , * and clubs and club - houses cease to be the resort of the young who constitute her hope . In spite of his life of gayety , Mr. Wilberforce attend- ed closely to the House of Commons . He was ...
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... heard that it was very usual for gentlemen on the Continent to practise some handicraft trade or other for their amusement , and therefore for my own part I concluded that his taste was in the fig way , and that he was only playing at ...
... heard that it was very usual for gentlemen on the Continent to practise some handicraft trade or other for their amusement , and therefore for my own part I concluded that his taste was in the fig way , and that he was only playing at ...
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... heard than it met with a ready response . The great county of Yorkshire had always , under the influence of its leading families , given its weight to the party to which Mr. Pitt was opposed . It was now de- termined to make an effort ...
... heard than it met with a ready response . The great county of Yorkshire had always , under the influence of its leading families , given its weight to the party to which Mr. Pitt was opposed . It was now de- termined to make an effort ...
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... heard him , " though at the distance of so many years , to forget his speech , or the effect which it produced . He arraigned with the utmost vigor the coalition ministry , and the India Bill which they had proposed - a measure which he ...
... heard him , " though at the distance of so many years , to forget his speech , or the effect which it produced . He arraigned with the utmost vigor the coalition ministry , and the India Bill which they had proposed - a measure which he ...
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Seite 501 - ... meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.
Seite 23 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.
Seite 395 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Seite 80 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.
Seite 556 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Seite 23 - I was introduced, on the very first night of my arrival, to as licentious a set of men as can well be conceived. They drank hard, and their conversation was even worse than their lives.
Seite 98 - Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversation in the world...
Seite 24 - did not act towards me the part of Christians, or even of honest men. Their object seemed to be to make and keep me idle. If ever I appeared studious, they would say to me — ' Why, in the world should a man of your fortune trouble himself with fagging?
Seite 184 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Seite 133 - He then proceeded to a particular account of his day, of the inquiries he had made respecting the poor ; there was no resident minister, no manufactory, nor did there appear any dawn of comfort, either temporal or spiritual. The...