Cottage Sketches; Or, Active Retirement, Volumes 1-2

Front Cover
West & Richardson, no. 75, Cornhill, 1813 - English fiction
 

Selected pages

Contents

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 127 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 28 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Page 24 - O come, all ye that fear the Lord, and I will tell you what He has done for my soul...
Page 103 - Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless His holy Name.
Page 29 - Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Page 123 - Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Page 8 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 68 - We claim acquaintance with the skies, Upward our spirits hourly rise, And there our thoughts employ : When heaven shall sign our grand release, We are no strangers to the place, The business, or the joy.
Page 45 - ... it too often happens that we lose sight of that which is our proper office, to publish the word of reconciliation, to propound the terms of peace and pardon to the penitent, and we make no other use of the high commission that we bear, than to come abroad one day in the seven, dressed in solemn looks, and in the external garb of holiness, to be the apes of Epictetus.
Page 63 - Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages that they are both equally conspicuous...

Bibliographic information