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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... Human Nature in its proper Dignity The Efficacy of Poetry upon the Mind 260 265 Praise and Blame to be regarded only as relating to 267 the Ufe of focial Intercourfe between Perfons of dif Things frictly true ferent Ages and Profeffions ...
... Human Nature in its proper Dignity The Efficacy of Poetry upon the Mind 260 265 Praise and Blame to be regarded only as relating to 267 the Ufe of focial Intercourfe between Perfons of dif Things frictly true ferent Ages and Profeffions ...
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... human inventions . But to pass over the notions of the Greeks and Romans , those ⚫ more enlightened parts of the pagan world , we find there is scarce a people among the late difcovered ⚫ nations , who are not trained up in an opinion ...
... human inventions . But to pass over the notions of the Greeks and Romans , those ⚫ more enlightened parts of the pagan world , we find there is scarce a people among the late difcovered ⚫ nations , who are not trained up in an opinion ...
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... human art is capable of producing , how much more will it be raised and TM elevated by thofe , in which is exerted the whole : power of harmony ! The fenfes are faculties of the human foul , though they cannot be employed , during ...
... human art is capable of producing , how much more will it be raised and TM elevated by thofe , in which is exerted the whole : power of harmony ! The fenfes are faculties of the human foul , though they cannot be employed , during ...
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... human nature , accidentally alight upon the earth , and take a furvey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us be ? Would not he think that we are a fpecies of beings made for quite different ends and pur- pofes than what we ...
... human nature , accidentally alight upon the earth , and take a furvey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us be ? Would not he think that we are a fpecies of beings made for quite different ends and pur- pofes than what we ...
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... human foul thus at a stand in her accomplish- ments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incar pable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a state of annihilation . But ...
... human foul thus at a stand in her accomplish- ments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incar pable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a state of annihilation . But ...
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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.