Makes you want to go hmmmm.
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| Caught reading a letter from Paul. (apologies to JHF) |
The first letter of Frances
Hill:
Madam, I sit down to
give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable
orders; ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those
scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerged, at length, to the
enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health, and fortune to
bestow, whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the
leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding,
naturally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose
pleasures I had been tossed in, exerted more observation on the characters and
manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession,
who, looking on all thought or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at as
great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy.
The first letter to the
Thessalonians:
Paul, and Silvanus,
and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians: . . . We give thanks to
God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; remembering
without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in
our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father, knowing, beloved,
your election of God; because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but
also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what
manner of men we were among you for your sake, and ye became followers of us,
and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the
Holy Ghost: so that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and
Achaia, since from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia
and Achaia, but also in every place your faith is spread abroad.
quod
erat demonstrandum fere.
02.09.16
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