The Life, Character, and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew, A. M.Harper, 1835 - 363 pages |
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... writing some account of my life , and leave it for others to publish when I am gone . " Those who have read the life ... write his own life , some one would immolate his reputation at the shrine of lucre . ' The next morning he sat down ...
... writing some account of my life , and leave it for others to publish when I am gone . " Those who have read the life ... write his own life , some one would immolate his reputation at the shrine of lucre . ' The next morning he sat down ...
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... writing , when the encroachment of disease forbade further progress , and death transferred the brief manuscript from the father to the son . Under an oppressive conviction of inadequacy , yet as a filial duty , the writer has ...
... writing , when the encroachment of disease forbade further progress , and death transferred the brief manuscript from the father to the son . Under an oppressive conviction of inadequacy , yet as a filial duty , the writer has ...
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... writer , seek in this volume a memoir of the accomplished scholar or the learned divine . But , though destitute of the ordinary features of literary or religious biography , there is a moral in the life of SAMUEL DREW which must ...
... writer , seek in this volume a memoir of the accomplished scholar or the learned divine . But , though destitute of the ordinary features of literary or religious biography , there is a moral in the life of SAMUEL DREW which must ...
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... write the Life of Dr. Coke . SECTION XXI . Mr. Drew contemplates a philosophical investigation of the tenets of Wesleyan Methodism - His Essay on the Being and Perfections of God published - He is urged to write on the Eternal Sonship ...
... write the Life of Dr. Coke . SECTION XXI . Mr. Drew contemplates a philosophical investigation of the tenets of Wesleyan Methodism - His Essay on the Being and Perfections of God published - He is urged to write on the Eternal Sonship ...
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... writes , or of him who reads , it is neither to rear a monument to departed excellence , nor to gratify the craving appetite of excited curiosity , that the biog- rapher should undertake his task . The utility of his labours , and the ...
... writes , or of him who reads , it is neither to rear a monument to departed excellence , nor to gratify the craving appetite of excited curiosity , that the biog- rapher should undertake his task . The utility of his labours , and the ...
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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.