The Philanthropist: Or, Selfishness and Benevolence IllustratedWilliam Ball, 1836 - 389 pages |
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... honoured benefactor , who will , I trust , now experience , by anticipation , the joy of having ' saved a soul from death . " " Part of the letter was written by a gentleman who had taken Henry into his employ ; a merchant of great ...
... honoured benefactor , who will , I trust , now experience , by anticipation , the joy of having ' saved a soul from death . " " Part of the letter was written by a gentleman who had taken Henry into his employ ; a merchant of great ...
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... honour the memory of the dead . Mrs. Beaumont was a proof that sensibility , like every other naturally innocent and amiable emotion , is con- verted by selfishness into an evil , and this will be the case , more or less , in every ...
... honour the memory of the dead . Mrs. Beaumont was a proof that sensibility , like every other naturally innocent and amiable emotion , is con- verted by selfishness into an evil , and this will be the case , more or less , in every ...
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... honour me , during much longer visits , with more than a cold invitation to call , that I shall occasion them any disappointment . " " You are mistaken on that point , " replied Mrs. Darby : " if Mrs. Beaumont were not very anxious to ...
... honour me , during much longer visits , with more than a cold invitation to call , that I shall occasion them any disappointment . " " You are mistaken on that point , " replied Mrs. Darby : " if Mrs. Beaumont were not very anxious to ...
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... honour . " " Only tell me , " said she , as soon as she had sought superior strength by a mental petition , " that he is yet alive , " for eternity rushed upon her spirit and quelled all inferior solicitudes ; nor did her self ...
... honour . " " Only tell me , " said she , as soon as she had sought superior strength by a mental petition , " that he is yet alive , " for eternity rushed upon her spirit and quelled all inferior solicitudes ; nor did her self ...
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... honour . Upon the gentlemen who were sharers with him in this crime , he seized every opportunity to im- press his own deep and dying convictions of the nature of their mutual guilt , making frequent and affecting acknowledgments of the ...
... honour . Upon the gentlemen who were sharers with him in this crime , he seized every opportunity to im- press his own deep and dying convictions of the nature of their mutual guilt , making frequent and affecting acknowledgments of the ...
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Popular passages
Page 81 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 140 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
Page 100 - Inasmuch as ye have not done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have not done it unto me...
Page 305 - Christian golden rule, of doing to others, as we would they should do to us, has been urged as an unanswerable argument against holding slaves.
Page 110 - He expressly lays down the golden rule, of doing to others as we would they should do unto us...
Page 150 - Hearken, my dearest brethren ; hath not. God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But you have .dishonoured the poor man.
Page 123 - It is a regulator both of our animal and moral feelings, and, aided by intellect, it serves to point out the limits which they must not pass. It desires to do to others as we would have them to do to us...
Page iii - Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives ; She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven.
Page 275 - When it becomes the universal rule, ' Do unto others as ye would others should do unto you' all laws will be benevolent, and all subjects obedient.