Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 |
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... religion , of reason , and man ; While no libertine motives their secrets dispense , But propriety joins hand - in - hand with good sense , Oh ! with thee , could the crowd view each sanctified scene , Where the hypocrite oft wears ...
... religion , of reason , and man ; While no libertine motives their secrets dispense , But propriety joins hand - in - hand with good sense , Oh ! with thee , could the crowd view each sanctified scene , Where the hypocrite oft wears ...
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... religion of his ancestors . About the year 1750 , my father having three or four children , and my mother proving an excellent wife , my grandfather's resentment had nearly sub- sided , so that he supplied him with money to open a shop ...
... religion of his ancestors . About the year 1750 , my father having three or four children , and my mother proving an excellent wife , my grandfather's resentment had nearly sub- sided , so that he supplied him with money to open a shop ...
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... Religious , punctual , frugal , and so forth ; Their word would pass for more than they were worth . " POPE . They carefully attended to their shop six days in the week , and on the seventh went with their family twice to an Anabaptist ...
... Religious , punctual , frugal , and so forth ; Their word would pass for more than they were worth . " POPE . They carefully attended to their shop six days in the week , and on the seventh went with their family twice to an Anabaptist ...
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... religious , not superstitious . " But , alas ! the dreadful crisis was at hand that put an end to the happiness and peace of this little family I had been an apprentice about twelve or fifteen months , when my master's eldest son George ...
... religious , not superstitious . " But , alas ! the dreadful crisis was at hand that put an end to the happiness and peace of this little family I had been an apprentice about twelve or fifteen months , when my master's eldest son George ...
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... Religion's lustre is by native innocence Divinely fair , pure , and simple from all arts ; You daub and dress her ... religious myste- ries , & c . answered one valuable purpose ; as it caused me to embrace every opportunity to learn to ...
... Religion's lustre is by native innocence Divinely fair , pure , and simple from all arts ; You daub and dress her ... religious myste- ries , & c . answered one valuable purpose ; as it caused me to embrace every opportunity to learn to ...
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acquainted Alvestone appear asserted assured attended began believe bible bookseller Bristol called Christ Christian church dear friend death devil divine doubt Dr Johnson dreadful Epictetus Epicurus eyes faith father fear Francis Kirkman gentlemen give grace happened happy hear heard heart heaven holy honour HUDIBRAS imputed righteousness infidel informed John Dunton kind knew Lackington lady learned LETTER live Lord manner married master Memoirs Metho Methodists miles mind mistress Moorfields morning never night o'er observed once person Pindar pious pleased pleasure poor possessed pounds preach preachers purchased racter reason religion remarkable says sell sermon shillings SOAME JENYNS sold soon soul spirit Taunton thou thought thousand tion took town trade trifling virtue Voltaire week Wellington Wesley Wesley instituted Wesley's Wesley's chapel whole wife woman young
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Страница 344 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Страница 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Страница 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Страница 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Страница 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 291 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Страница 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Страница 220 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
Страница 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.
Страница 50 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...