The Life, Character, and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew, A. M.Harper, 1835 - 363 pages |
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... knowledge of human nature , there are some memoirs which furnish more valuable facts and more delicate tests than others . Where , for instance , the mental powers have been called into exercise at a late period of life , and under ...
... knowledge of human nature , there are some memoirs which furnish more valuable facts and more delicate tests than others . Where , for instance , the mental powers have been called into exercise at a late period of life , and under ...
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... knowledge ; and it is said , that in both reading and writing she was entirely self - taught . Nor was it the mere ability to read and write that she acquired . The specimen of her penmanship which the writer of this memoir has seen is ...
... knowledge ; and it is said , that in both reading and writing she was entirely self - taught . Nor was it the mere ability to read and write that she acquired . The specimen of her penmanship which the writer of this memoir has seen is ...
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... knowledge I have is thine , and shall be employed for thee . What learning thou hast bestowed on me shall not henceforth be prostituted to Satan , as it has in times past . If I have any wisdom , it is thine , and shall be used for thee ...
... knowledge I have is thine , and shall be employed for thee . What learning thou hast bestowed on me shall not henceforth be prostituted to Satan , as it has in times past . If I have any wisdom , it is thine , and shall be used for thee ...
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... knowledge may be more or less advantageous in after - life , according to situation and circumstances ; but all men are re- sponsible as moral agents ; and it is the imperative duty of parents to give their children a correct knowledge ...
... knowledge may be more or less advantageous in after - life , according to situation and circumstances ; but all men are re- sponsible as moral agents ; and it is the imperative duty of parents to give their children a correct knowledge ...
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... knowledge . But let him consider well what these opportunities are , and to what extent his duty to the public is to take precedence of that which he owes to his immediate connections . Let him remember that there are frequently con ...
... knowledge . But let him consider well what these opportunities are , and to what extent his duty to the public is to take precedence of that which he owes to his immediate connections . Let him remember that there are frequently con ...
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Page 47 - Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Page 21 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 66 - It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 47 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 264 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.