The Works of Mrs. Chapone: Now First Collected. Containing I.Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Ii.Miscellanies. Iii.Corredspondence with Mr. Richardson. Iv.Letters to Miss Carter. V. Fugitive Pieces. To which is Prefixed, an Account of Her Life and Character, Drawn Up by Her Own Family ...W. Wells and T.B. Wait and Company Court-street, 1809 |
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Page 122 - Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so is a word better than a gift. Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.
Page 76 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shall drink it with pleasure.
Page 34 - ... injurious to the society in which we live. It is impossible to love God, without desiring to please him, and, as far as we are able, to resemble him; therefore, the love of God must lead, to every virtue in the highest degree: and, we may be sure, we do not truly love him, if we content ourselves with avoiding flagrant sins, and do not strive, in good earnest, to reach the greatest degree of perfection we are capable of. Thus do those few words direct us to the highest Christian virtue.
Page 40 - You cannot but dread the forfeiture of such an inheritance as the most insupportable evil ! — Remember then — remember the conditions on which alone it can be obtained. God will not give to vice, to carelessness, or sloth, the prize he has proposed to virtue. You have every help that can animate your endeavours : — You have written laws to direct you — the example of Christ and his disciples to encourage you — the most awakening motives to engage you — and you have, besides, the comfortable...
Page 80 - ... not get him again. Follow after him no more, for he is too far off ; he is as a roe escaped out of the snare. As for a wound, it may be bound up, and after reviling there may be reconciliation ; but he that bewrayeth secrets, is without hope.
Page 77 - If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation ; except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound ; for, for these...
Page 75 - If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him : for some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend who being turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach.
Page 23 - And he vehemently exhorts them not to flatter themselves that their success was in any degree owing to their own merits. They were appointed to be the scourge of other nations, whose crimes rendered them fit objects of Divine chastisement. For the sake of righteous Abraham, their founder, and perhaps for many other wise reasons undiscovered to us, they were selected from a world overrun with idolatry, to preserve upon earth the pure worship of the one only God, and to be honoured with the birth of...
Page 19 - ... oppressed Israelites from the cruel tyranny of the Egyptians, who, having first received them as guests, by degrees reduced them to a state of slavery. By the most peculiar mercies and exertions in their favour, God prepared his chosen people to receive, with reverent and obedient hearts, the solemn restitution of those primitive laws, which probably he had revealed to Adam and his immediate descendants, or which, at least, he had made known by the dictates of conscience, but which, time, and...
Page 54 - that I never pretended to set my understanding in competition with yours. I knew my own inferiority; and though many of your notions and opinions appeared to me very strange and particular, I never attempted to dispute them with you. To be sure, you know best; but it seems to me a very odd conduct for one in your situation to give offence to so good an uncle; first by maintaining doctrines which may be very true for...