The Listener, Volume 1James Nisbet, 1830 - Education |
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Page 48
... desire . It seems but a fair back- ground to set off our flowers . Let it grow on . Hard service truly has that propensity which once is enlisted to wait on the selfish interests of man . Envy , jealousy and emulation , anger ...
... desire . It seems but a fair back- ground to set off our flowers . Let it grow on . Hard service truly has that propensity which once is enlisted to wait on the selfish interests of man . Envy , jealousy and emulation , anger ...
Page 64
... desire to make great things of small , or to magnify into vices the little discrepancies of character , that so incessantly blemish the moral prospect around us . Vice is one thing , folly is another . In their importance no comparison ...
... desire to make great things of small , or to magnify into vices the little discrepancies of character , that so incessantly blemish the moral prospect around us . Vice is one thing , folly is another . In their importance no comparison ...
Page 65
... desire to say to the contrary , very wise in things of moment . Besides the mother , there were several young people of different ages , reaching from infancy almost to womanhood , all happy , all compliant , and all obliging - except ...
... desire to say to the contrary , very wise in things of moment . Besides the mother , there were several young people of different ages , reaching from infancy almost to womanhood , all happy , all compliant , and all obliging - except ...
Page 85
... desire and a liking to it , an imperfect Sabbath has been at certain intervals appointed us , in which we are permitted , nay , commanded under all the penalties of disobedience , to take of the food on which our perfected spirits will ...
... desire and a liking to it , an imperfect Sabbath has been at certain intervals appointed us , in which we are permitted , nay , commanded under all the penalties of disobedience , to take of the food on which our perfected spirits will ...
Page 100
... desire of the sort , but I have often thought it must be pleasant to listen in the days of sop , when every Thrush could offer counsel in a voice as sweet as that with which she bids farewell to the departing sun , and every Butterfly ...
... desire of the sort , but I have often thought it must be pleasant to listen in the days of sop , when every Thrush could offer counsel in a voice as sweet as that with which she bids farewell to the departing sun , and every Butterfly ...
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