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... principles . His mother indeed was a woman of real excellence , as well as of great and highly cultivated talents , but not possessed at this time of those views of the spiritual nature of religion , which she adopted in later life ...
... principles . His mother indeed was a woman of real excellence , as well as of great and highly cultivated talents , but not possessed at this time of those views of the spiritual nature of religion , which she adopted in later life ...
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... principles.14 " I certainly did not then think and act as I do now , " he declared long afterwards ; " but I was so far from what the world calls licentious , that I was rather com- plimented on being better than young men in general ...
... principles.14 " I certainly did not then think and act as I do now , " he declared long afterwards ; " but I was so far from what the world calls licentious , that I was rather com- plimented on being better than young men in general ...
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... principle of union was a resolution to take neither place , pension , nor peerage . Yet in a few years so far had ... principles . His later journals abound in expressions of thankfulness that he did not at this time enter on official ...
... principle of union was a resolution to take neither place , pension , nor peerage . Yet in a few years so far had ... principles . His later journals abound in expressions of thankfulness that he did not at this time enter on official ...
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... principles be such as in these days are not very generally prevalent , perhaps I owe the continu- ance of them in a great measure to solitude in the country . This is not merely the difference between theory and practice , it is not ...
... principles be such as in these days are not very generally prevalent , perhaps I owe the continu- ance of them in a great measure to solitude in the country . This is not merely the difference between theory and practice , it is not ...
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... great constitutional principles which we all main- tained . This confirmed the disposition to propose me 10 Letter to Rev. W. Mason , Feb. 28 , 1784 . 1784 . CANDIDATE FOR YORKSHIRE . 59 for the county 58 1784 . LIFE OF WILBERFORCE .
... great constitutional principles which we all main- tained . This confirmed the disposition to propose me 10 Letter to Rev. W. Mason , Feb. 28 , 1784 . 1784 . CANDIDATE FOR YORKSHIRE . 59 for the county 58 1784 . LIFE OF WILBERFORCE .
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Página 107 - Finally, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thyself ; for this is the whole of the law and the prophets, and none other commandment is greater than these.
Página 84 - Christ is made unto us sanctification, and our heavenly Father will give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.
Página 294 - What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit ? Shall the dust give thanks unto Thee : or shall it declare Thy truth?
Página 15 - Government," he says in a letter on this subject, " had been for some months before the breaking out of the war, negotiating with the principal European powers, for the purpose of obtaining a joint representation to France, assuring her that if she would formally engage to keep within her limits, and not molest her neighbours, she should be suffered to settle her own internal government and constitution without interference. I never was so earnest with Mr. Pitt on any other occasion...
Página 40 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Página 382 - Behold I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
Página 365 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Página 243 - ... may my light so shine before men, that they may see my good works, and glorify thee.
Página 56 - what seemed a mere shrimp, mount upon the table, but, as I listened, he grew and grew, until the shrimp became a whale.
Página 153 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward.