A Topographical, Statistical and Historical Account of ... Preston ... Including ... a Directory for 1821 ...

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Seite 88 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Seite 125 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, And by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, Wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Seite 183 - What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives: T
Seite 132 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Seite 191 - I, AB, do declare and believe, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him : So help me God.
Seite 159 - Church enjoyed peace — it was regarded as a sacred realm by men who, though they hated one another, believed and feared the same God. Abused as it was by the worldly-minded and ambitious, and disgraced by the artifices of the designing and the follies of the fanatic, it afforded a shelter to those who were better than the world in their youth or weary of it in their age. The wise as well as the timid and gentle fled to this Goshen of God, which enjoyed its own light and calm amidst darkness and...
Seite 86 - It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Seite 268 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 60 - Paul saith. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Seite 53 - That every Male Person of full Age who on the last Day of August in any Year shall have occupied any House, Warehouse, Counting-house or Shop within any Borough during that Year and the whole of each of the Two preceding Years...

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