Passages from the Auto-biography of a "Man of Kent" [i.e. Robert Cowtan]Whittingham and Wilkins, 1866 - 407 страници |
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... chapel that he attended quite free to any of the young men who might desire to make use of it . I had never attended a Dissenting meeting - house in my life ; but my curiosity was a little excited to see and A Dissenting Chapel . 89 ...
... chapel that he attended quite free to any of the young men who might desire to make use of it . I had never attended a Dissenting meeting - house in my life ; but my curiosity was a little excited to see and A Dissenting Chapel . 89 ...
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... chapel was situated in the New Road , and was a large oblong , plain brick building , destitute of any archi- tectural pretensions , and capable of holding 1200 or 1400 people . It is one of the commodious chapels that were erected in ...
... chapel was situated in the New Road , and was a large oblong , plain brick building , destitute of any archi- tectural pretensions , and capable of holding 1200 or 1400 people . It is one of the commodious chapels that were erected in ...
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... chapel with a very different opinion of Dissenters and their services to that which I had enter- tained all my life . I had always associated Dissent and Dissenters with ignorance and vulgarity , and imagined , as many other Churchmen ...
... chapel with a very different opinion of Dissenters and their services to that which I had enter- tained all my life . I had always associated Dissent and Dissenters with ignorance and vulgarity , and imagined , as many other Churchmen ...
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... chapel , but sought my bedroom , and there for the first time in my life poured out my full heart " in strong crying and tears " at the feet of that Great and Loving God against whose goodness I had been sinning , and whose parental ...
... chapel , but sought my bedroom , and there for the first time in my life poured out my full heart " in strong crying and tears " at the feet of that Great and Loving God against whose goodness I had been sinning , and whose parental ...
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... chapel . I had now attended the services regularly for more than twelve months , and my attachment to the minister was in- creasing daily . The few weeks that I was out of employ- ment gave me more time leisurely to take a retrospect of ...
... chapel . I had now attended the services regularly for more than twelve months , and my attachment to the minister was in- creasing daily . The few weeks that I was out of employ- ment gave me more time leisurely to take a retrospect of ...
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Страница 345 - But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Страница 389 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Страница 115 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Страница 286 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Страница 90 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Страница 122 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Страница 345 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Страница 232 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Страница 381 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Страница 45 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.