Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volume 4

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J. Hogg, 1847
 

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Page 228 - is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 74 - when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God ; and still, while a man tells the story, the sun gets up higher, till he shows a full fair light, and a face, and then he shines one whole day, under a cloud
Page 114 - with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer ; as also before and after sermons, and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballades, which tend
Page 290 - and friendship without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man, it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark; through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland ; rude and churlish Finland; unprincipled Russia; and the widespread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or
Page 114 - The whole booke of Psalmes collected into English meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer ; as also before and after sermons, and
Page 307 - wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter ? With another for tying his new shoes with old riband? 1
Page 290 - me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue (so worthy the appellation of benevolence), these actions have been performed in so free and kind a manner, that if I was dry 1 drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry
Page 74 - cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns like those which decked the brows of
Page 36 - a priest had built it ; a priest had succeeded to it; other priestly men, from time to time, had dwelt in it ; and children, born in its chambers, had grown up to assume the priestly character. It was awful to reflect how many sermons must have been written there.
Page 182 - Thelwal thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it had come to years of discretion to choose for itself. I showed him my garden, and told him it was my botanical garden.

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