Where human weakness has come short, Or frailty stept aside, Do thou, All-Good!
African frailty is what I want," pursued Mrs. Greyne.
Was she herself to learn at first hand, and on her first evening in Africa, enough about African frailty to last her for the rest of her life?
This was my cruel Uncle's notion; he measured my virtue by the frailty of my sex, and thought it was the man and not the person I loved.
At least I will try by strong endeavour to smother in my heart those desires to which the frailty of my nature gives birth, and I will exercise on myself such torments as those you have to suffer from the rage of your enemies.
It took no small amount of physical courage for a person of Mrs. Toomey's frailty to face such a gale.
In Lunacy Law extremes of intellect meet; the British senator plays at Satan; and tempts human frailty and cupidity beyond what they are able to bear.
Death of her Son O Come Back, my Brother The Twins On the Frailty of Earthly Things To a Friend The Mother and her Child A Mother's Prayer Lines in an Album On the Death of a Mother The Music of Earth On the Death of Mrs. C.
But a few more years passed, and you looked in vain upon earth for that weary voyager, On the Frailty of Earthly Things.
Is the family frailty timidity and cowardice, cultivate backbone, read the biography of brave men like Joshua or Paul, and see if you cannot get a little iron in your blood.
If the family frailty be avarice, cultivate unselfishness and charity, and teach your children never to eat an apple without offering somebody else half of it.
Find out what the family frailty is, and set body, mind and soul in battle array.
I to your kindness speak, let that prevail, 30 And of my frailty judge as beings frail.
This is a Frailty which I hope is so far from criminal, that methinks there is a kind of Piety in being so unwilling to be separated from a State which is the Institution of Heaven, and in which we have lived according to its Laws.
Tho Adam involves the whole Species in Misery, his Crime proceeds from a Weakness which every Man is inclined to pardon and commiserate, as it seems rather the Frailty of Human Nature, than of the Person who offended.
What Vice or Frailty can a Discourse correct, which censures the whole Species alike, and endeavours to shew by some Superficial Strokes of Wit, that Brutes are the more excellent Creatures of the two?
The Senator we mourn was human; but the error and frailty which belonged to him often took their color from virtue itself.
They describe no sin of the flesh, of impulse, frailty or passion, nor yet a spiritual lapse of an unguarded hour, of rash speculation, of erring or misled opinion.
And there is an unfathomable tenderness, a marvellous allowance for their frailty in what follows.
Sometimes he thought that the frailty of what is beautiful and the brevity of what is good adds value to the beauty and goodness of all things.
The repetition of the theme of man's frailty is not unnatural, and gives emphasis to the contrast of the unchangeable stability of God's word.
This new herald is to proclaim man's frailty and the immortal vigour of God's word, which secures the fulfilment of His promises.
From thy cross our frailty borrows Strength to bear and conquer thus.
Supported by thy love, We tend to realms of peace, Where every pain shall far remove, And every frailty cease.
He is impressed with the frailty of mankind and the brevity of life: 'Frail man' and 'transitory man' fell readily from his lips who was to die so young.
Whether, as a result, any large number of cases of individual frailty have exposed themselves, probably only those immediately interested know; the exposure at least has not reached the general public.
And weel do I mind mony a time I wondered what pleasure she could tak in distressin me; but I think noo it was just a frailty o' our nature--a something that auld folk canna help.
The proposition did not altogether please the deacon, who, though very far from being an upright man, did not care about his frailty being known to another.
It prefers its villains to grow blacker with time, and welcomes proof of fallibility and frailty in its immortal exemplars.
But he teaches that these exercises are but preparations; for the end and perfection of the monastic state consists in continual and uninterrupted perseverance in prayer, as far as human frailty will permit.
There also having made the confession of his sins to the high priest of the Lord, and received penance, he washed away with his tears the offences which through human frailty he had contracted.
