Real happiness: or, The philanthropist1856 - 12 pages |
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Page 63 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 108 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; yea saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
Page 79 - Inasmuch as ye have not done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have not done it unto me...
Page 296 - Morning Post. * Miss Sinclair deserves no slight praise for the manner in which she has performed her task. * * The recent disclosures made, with regard to Roman Catholic schools and semi-Romish nunneries in this country, make the convent scenes in " Beatrice" perfectly intelligible as well as perfectly credible.
Page 230 - Christian golden rule, of doing to others, as we would they should do to us, has been urged as an unanswerable argument against holding slaves.
Page 86 - He expressly lays down the golden rule, of doing to others as we would they should do unto us...
Page 116 - Hearken, my dearest brethren ; hath not. God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him ? 6 But you have .dishonoured the poor man.
Page 296 - TKSTIMONIKS in favour of the work, the following are selected : * Of the merits of the work it is not necessary to say a word after the unanimous opinion in its favor which has been expressed wherever the English language is spoken or read. Our purpose in referring to " Beatrice " is to call attention to this new and cheap edition, by means of which the work is placed within the reach of all classes of the community. There is no writer in the walk of literature which Miss Sinclair has selected for...
Page 296 - Christian Witness. * In this tale, from the pen of an accomplished lady writer, the element of Jesuitism finds an illustration as powerful in its way as is discoverable in the famous " Wandering Jew " of Eugene Sue ; while the tranquil atrocities, the soul-enslaving, and the mind-destroying influences of their pernicious principles, are most forcibly depicted through the medium of the personages here employed.