The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 страници |
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... shall therefore utterly extinguifh this melancholy thought , of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works , and the infinity of those ob- jects among which he feems to be inceffantly employed , if we confider ...
... shall therefore utterly extinguifh this melancholy thought , of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works , and the infinity of those ob- jects among which he feems to be inceffantly employed , if we confider ...
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... shall not be difappointed of our hope . The following question is started by one of the fchoolmen . Suppofing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mafs of the fineft fand , and that a fingle grain or particle of this fand ...
... shall not be difappointed of our hope . The following question is started by one of the fchoolmen . Suppofing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mafs of the fineft fand , and that a fingle grain or particle of this fand ...
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... shall look down upon that degree of perfec- tion as much as he now falls fhort of it . It is true , the higher nature ftill advances , and by that means preferves his diftance and fuperiority in the fcale of being ; but he knows that ...
... shall look down upon that degree of perfec- tion as much as he now falls fhort of it . It is true , the higher nature ftill advances , and by that means preferves his diftance and fuperiority in the fcale of being ; but he knows that ...
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... shall here fet down , after having premifed , that notwith- ftanding there is fuch infinite room between man and his Maker for the creative power to exert itself in , it is impoffible that it should ever be filled up , fince there will ...
... shall here fet down , after having premifed , that notwith- ftanding there is fuch infinite room between man and his Maker for the creative power to exert itself in , it is impoffible that it should ever be filled up , fince there will ...
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... shall here take no- tice , that the world , on which we are placed , is filled with innumerable objects that are proper to raise and keep alive this happy temper of mind . If we confider the world in its fubferviency to man , one would ...
... shall here take no- tice , that the world , on which we are placed , is filled with innumerable objects that are proper to raise and keep alive this happy temper of mind . If we confider the world in its fubferviency to man , one would ...
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Страница 127 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Страница 344 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Страница 168 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Страница 13 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Страница 127 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Страница 346 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Страница 344 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Страница 346 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Страница 344 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.