The Works of the Late Miss Catherine Talbot: First Published by the Late Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; and Now Republished with Some Few Additional Papers, Together with Notes and Illustrations and Some Account of Her LifeF. C. and J. Rivington, 1819 - 363 pages |
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... never un- mindful of this obligation , which naturally induced him to pay great attention to his benefactor's widow and child . When therefore he married Miss Benson from her house , he immediately joined his wife in the request that ...
... never un- mindful of this obligation , which naturally induced him to pay great attention to his benefactor's widow and child . When therefore he married Miss Benson from her house , he immediately joined his wife in the request that ...
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... never studied the learned languages , unless perhaps a little Latin , she reaped all the advantages of Mr. Secker's deep and extensive learning , of his accurate knowledge of the Scriptures , and of his critical and unwearied research ...
... never studied the learned languages , unless perhaps a little Latin , she reaped all the advantages of Mr. Secker's deep and extensive learning , of his accurate knowledge of the Scriptures , and of his critical and unwearied research ...
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... never met til February , 1741 , though they had once previously seen each other in St. James's church ; a circumstance which , though trivial , they were ac- customed to recollect with much pleasure , and to which sometimes they alluded ...
... never met til February , 1741 , though they had once previously seen each other in St. James's church ; a circumstance which , though trivial , they were ac- customed to recollect with much pleasure , and to which sometimes they alluded ...
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... never decreased to the hour of Miss Talbot's death , nor was ever damped by the most trifling disagreement or estrangement whatsoever . The esteem as well as the affection were mutual ; it was in the truest sense a religious friendship ...
... never decreased to the hour of Miss Talbot's death , nor was ever damped by the most trifling disagreement or estrangement whatsoever . The esteem as well as the affection were mutual ; it was in the truest sense a religious friendship ...
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... never prevail upon her friend either to arrange her papers properly , or to publish them . herself ; though it was what she earnestly desired , and had even succeeded so far as to obtain a pro- mise * from her that she would endeavour ...
... never prevail upon her friend either to arrange her papers properly , or to publish them . herself ; though it was what she earnestly desired , and had even succeeded so far as to obtain a pro- mise * from her that she would endeavour ...
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Page 20 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 18 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 109 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Page 35 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Page 6 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 122 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole.
Page 1 - Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts long before. Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways.
Page 193 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway, Defaced by time and tottering in decay, There in the ruin, heedless of the dead, The shelter-seeking peasant builds his shed ; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile.
Page 28 - I find them irreclaimable, and myself in the least possible danger of being infected by their example — then to fly them as I would the plague ; then to cut off a right hand, and pluck out a right eye, and break through every fondness and every attachment that would destroy my highest, my eternal interest.
Page 224 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.