Emancipation

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Houlston and Son, 1829 - 150 pagina's
 

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Pagina 143 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Pagina 128 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Pagina 101 - John xiv. 6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father but by me 1 Tim ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Pagina 44 - Bessy had attained the ages of five and three, that the baleful effects of my false principles began to display themselves more evidently. My wife, as I before said, was young and inexperienced when she married me ; and my absurd notion of not interfering with her caprices, had deprived her in many instances of the benefit of my advice. There is an old saying, that " two heads are better than one...
Pagina 109 - In common with many other pragmatical persons, I had formed an ideal deity to myself, as totally different from the God of Scripture as Mahomet is unlike to Christ. The god of my folly was a supposed indulgent parent ; paying little regard to the proceedings of his children, so long as they transgress not certain bounds ; which, by the by, were always regulated by my own pleasure : but, when I came to examine the character of the Deity by Scripture, I discovered at once, to my utter dismay, that...
Pagina 70 - ... foreseen how it would end, when he was gaining such influence over mother, and when his sentiments are so opposite to yours. For, if a man has any spirit in him, connected with those notions he thinks highly of, he will be for making others do as he thinks right ; and, for that reason, father, when I have a house of my own, and a wife of my own, and children of my own, they shall, do as I wish, or I will know the reason why.
Pagina 142 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be ye horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord : for my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewed out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Pagina 18 - B 3 myself to a slice from the white loaf. The arrival of my mother, in a coloured apron, relieved my embarrassment, and restored my self-confidence; and, when Ellen left the room, which she soon did, we had a long conversation, during which she opened to me many of the family arrangements and plans. She told me that my brother and Ellen were engaged to each other, and were to be married as soon as the deep mourning for my uncle was laid aside, and that they were to continue to live with them; and...

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