Thoughts in Prison;: In Five Parts, Viz. The Imprisonment, The Retrospect, Public Punishment, The Trial, FuturityJ. Mawman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ... [and 2 others], 1815 - 212 páginas |
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... once into poverty and scorn ; my name and my crime fill the ballads in the street , the sport of the thoughtless , and the triumph of the wicked . " It may seem strange , remembering what I have lately been , that I should still wish to ...
... once into poverty and scorn ; my name and my crime fill the ballads in the street , the sport of the thoughtless , and the triumph of the wicked . " It may seem strange , remembering what I have lately been , that I should still wish to ...
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... once , I am now a spectacle to men , and shall soon be a spectacle to angels . ' " Just before the sheriff's officers came with the halters , one who was walking with him told him that there was yet a little solemnity he must pass ...
... once , I am now a spectacle to men , and shall soon be a spectacle to angels . ' " Just before the sheriff's officers came with the halters , one who was walking with him told him that there was yet a little solemnity he must pass ...
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... once The ample scene of present , future , past , All naked to his eye of flame , -all rang'd In harmony complete , to work his will , And finish with the plaudit of the skies ! But , while this whelming blazon may not burst On the weak ...
... once The ample scene of present , future , past , All naked to his eye of flame , -all rang'd In harmony complete , to work his will , And finish with the plaudit of the skies ! But , while this whelming blazon may not burst On the weak ...
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... once Toppled the happy edifice adown , Whelm'd thee and thine beneath its ruinous crash , And buried all in sorrow ? -Torn away Impetuous from thy home , thy much lov'd home , Without one moment to reflection giv'n ! By soothing ...
... once Toppled the happy edifice adown , Whelm'd thee and thine beneath its ruinous crash , And buried all in sorrow ? -Torn away Impetuous from thy home , thy much lov'd home , Without one moment to reflection giv'n ! By soothing ...
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... once so amply mine , The labours of his love . Now , laid aside , Cover'd my head with ignominious dust , My voice is stopp'd ; and had I ev'n the power , Strong shame , and stronger grief would to that voice Forbid all utterance ! -Ah ...
... once so amply mine , The labours of his love . Now , laid aside , Cover'd my head with ignominious dust , My voice is stopp'd ; and had I ev'n the power , Strong shame , and stronger grief would to that voice Forbid all utterance ! -Ah ...
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Página 185 - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Página 185 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken : and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Página 185 - And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
Página 199 - Thee, according to Thy blessed Word and ordinance ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Página i - All these indignities, for such they are From thine, these evils I deserve, and more, Acknowledge them from God inflicted on me Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant...
Página xvii - To profess that there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved...
Página xii - To an act now waiting the decision of vindictive justice, I will not presume to oppose the counterbalance of almost thirty years (a great part of the life of man) passed in exciting and exercising charity ; in relieving such distresses as I now feel, in administering those consolations which I now want.
Página 212 - That fhe has been a conftant witnefs of his unwearied endeavours for public good, and his laborious attendance on charitable inftitutions. Many are the families whom his care has delivered from want ; many are the hearts which he has freed from pain, and the faces which he has cleared from forrow.
Página 188 - Cod night and day. When, in the review of the times which we have past, any offence arises to our thoughts, let us humbly implore forgiveness; and for those faults (and many they are and must be) which we cannot recollect, let us solicit mercy in general petitions. But it must be our constant care...
Página xii - I am desirous to recompense the injury I have done to the clergy, to the world, and to religion, and to efface the scandal of my crime, by the example of my repentance : but, above all, I wish to die with thoughts more composed, and calmer preparation.