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 páginas |
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Página xix
... comfort it is to think on the diffusive good which that dear angel has communicated to the world , of which she is now enjoying the reward ! What a blessed change to herself from the suffering state of the last sad year ! " See Mrs ...
... comfort it is to think on the diffusive good which that dear angel has communicated to the world , of which she is now enjoying the reward ! What a blessed change to herself from the suffering state of the last sad year ! " See Mrs ...
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... comfort you to hear that my mother and I are well ; composed and resigned . " And again a few days after , " Circum- stances of the greatest distress have been mixed with our heavy affliction , and I more than ever see cause for ...
... comfort you to hear that my mother and I are well ; composed and resigned . " And again a few days after , " Circum- stances of the greatest distress have been mixed with our heavy affliction , and I more than ever see cause for ...
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... comfort or amusement , " and at the same time recommended them to all her intimate acquaintance in that neighbourhood . From this delightful retreat Miss Talbot only returned in time to breathe her last in her mother's house in town ...
... comfort or amusement , " and at the same time recommended them to all her intimate acquaintance in that neighbourhood . From this delightful retreat Miss Talbot only returned in time to breathe her last in her mother's house in town ...
Página xxx
... comfort of passing a few days with her beloved friend , before her death dissolved that close and endearing intimacy , founded in the most perfect esteem , which had now existed almost thirty years between them . The account which she ...
... comfort of passing a few days with her beloved friend , before her death dissolved that close and endearing intimacy , founded in the most perfect esteem , which had now existed almost thirty years between them . The account which she ...
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... meant strictness has the most dangerous ten- dency in the world . Between these two extremes , undoubtedly lies the plain path of duty : the narrow , but not thorny road , that leads through the truest comfort 4 32 Reflections on Friday .
... meant strictness has the most dangerous ten- dency in the world . Between these two extremes , undoubtedly lies the plain path of duty : the narrow , but not thorny road , that leads through the truest comfort 4 32 Reflections on Friday .
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affection agreeable amiable amusement appear art thou attend beautiful behaviour better Bishop of Gloucester blessed body Carter CATHARINE character chearful cheerful circumstances companions creatures dear degree delight Demosthenes dili disposition distress drest duty ELIZABETH CARTER employment endeavours Epictetus ESSAY eternal excellent fair fairy fancy faults folly fortune friendship give gratitude happy heart honour human nature humble humour idle imagination improve indolent indulgence infinitely innocent kind labour Lambeth Palace least Lisaura little George live look means melan melancholy ment mind Miss Talbot mortal neral ness never nosegay nymph Ossian ourselves pain perfect perhaps Persephone persons pleasing pleasure poor present racters reason rich scarcely scene Secker seems Sir Charles Grandison smiling society sorrow soul spirits sure sweet temper thee thing thou thought Thyrsis tion trifling true truth uneasiness vanity virtue whole wish wretched
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Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 109 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.