Memoirs and select remains of an only son [W.F. Durant].T. Hamilton, 1822 - 278 páginas A biographical account of William Friend Durant. |
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... Mother 142 His first Session at Glasgow 159 Extracts from his Letters written during that Session ... 165 .... 180 A Poem , " The Land of the Blessed " Professor Walker's Testimony to his cha- racter and success at College ....... His ...
... Mother 142 His first Session at Glasgow 159 Extracts from his Letters written during that Session ... 165 .... 180 A Poem , " The Land of the Blessed " Professor Walker's Testimony to his cha- racter and success at College ....... His ...
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... mother and myself jointly make these the special subjects of our petitions . Nor had we , in after life , neither have I to this mo- ment , reason to doubt , that He , " who heareth prayer , " approved and answered ours . can be ...
... mother and myself jointly make these the special subjects of our petitions . Nor had we , in after life , neither have I to this mo- ment , reason to doubt , that He , " who heareth prayer , " approved and answered ours . can be ...
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... mother ; who pos- sessed , in a high degree , almost every mental and moral excellency , for which her son was afterwards so distinguished . I knew , from the experience of three years , that she was deficient in no single qualification ...
... mother ; who pos- sessed , in a high degree , almost every mental and moral excellency , for which her son was afterwards so distinguished . I knew , from the experience of three years , that she was deficient in no single qualification ...
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... mother nor myself ever en- dured , on this ground , a moment's anxiety . She , in adverting to it , has often said , " The probability is , that he will survive us both ; and why should we torment ourselves with the voluntary ...
... mother nor myself ever en- dured , on this ground , a moment's anxiety . She , in adverting to it , has often said , " The probability is , that he will survive us both ; and why should we torment ourselves with the voluntary ...
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... mother was uniformly silent before him , and shewed me , when alone , the extravagance of my re- quisitions - thus affording me an opportunity of averting or correcting any evil that might have been threatened or produced . - without ...
... mother was uniformly silent before him , and shewed me , when alone , the extravagance of my re- quisitions - thus affording me an opportunity of averting or correcting any evil that might have been threatened or produced . - without ...
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Página 87 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página v - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Página 8 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 61 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Página 2 - The LORD gave and the LORD taketh away, and blessed be the name of the LORD.
Página 38 - God that his parents 37 had never departed from it. I am not sure that my agony, on hearing of his death, was much more intense than that which I then endured, from an apprehension of his guilt. Instantly, but without betraying my emotions, I asked him what he had said. He answered, at once, in so artless and unembarrassed a manner, as to convince me that he was unconscious of falsehood, — that there must have been some misconception in the case, and that my boy was yet innocent.
Página 38 - ... death, was much more intense than that which I then endured, from an apprehension of his guilt. Instantly, but without betraying my emotions, I asked him what he had said. He answered, at once, in so artless and unembarrassed a manner, as to convince me that he was unconscious of falsehood, — that there must have been some misconception in the case, and that my boy was yet innocent. I pursued the inquiry, and in a few moments found, to my inexpressible joy, that he was perfectly correct in...
Página 4 - Thou embryo-angel, or thou infant fiend, A being now begun, but ne'er to end, What boding fears a Father's heart torment, Trembling and anxious for the grand event, Lest thy young soul so late by...
Página 37 - I was thunderstruck and almost distracted ; for the information seemed to blast my most cherished hopes. This might, I thought, be the commencement of a series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not — I never was — naturally of a temper to augur the worst; but the first grand moral delinquency, even at such...
Página 156 - He will have it known, that though he uses instruments, he needs them not. It is a piece of divine royalty and magnificence, that when he hath prepared and polished such a utensil, so as to be capable of great service, he can lay it by without loss.