 Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes...  Work and Play: Talks with Students - Page 95by John Edwin Bradley - 1900 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 816 pages
...misery.' " And his misery he still further paints in a letter, dated June of the same year: "Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...attempting to beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to a vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in bell employed in tracing out for others the road to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...had no strength to break his bonds. To Cottle, the Bristol bookseller, he wrote in 1814: ' Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant return to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 558 pages
...ignorantly." "For ten years," he says, " the anguish of my spirit has been indescribable. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell employed in tracing out for others tbe road to that harm... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...hands, after he had proceeded far on in his work. ' Bristol, June 2(ith, 1814. ' Dear Sir, ' Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 pages
...I have abused ; accept, however, my intreaties for your forgiveness, and for your prayers. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...I have abused ; accept, however, my entreaties for your forgiveness, and for your prayers. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1839 - 674 pages
...ten years the anguish of my spirit has been indescribable. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who, lo/ many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell employed in traceing out for others, the road to that... | |
 | 1840 - 408 pages
...have abused — accept, howe»er, my entreaties for your forgiveness and for your prayers. Conçoive a poor, miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...ignorantly." " For ten years," he says, " the anguish of my spirit has been indescribable. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell employed in tracing out for others, the road to that... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pages
...ignorantly." " For ten years," he says, " the anguish of my spirit has been indescribable. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been...beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell employed in tracing out for others, the road lo that... | |
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