Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c: Together with Nine Papers from the Olla Podrida; and PoemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 - 295 страници |
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... , but as he was passing on with the black design in his thoughts , his eye was caught by Mr. Hanway's de- vice ; and the motto NEVER DESPAIR , rushed upon his mind ; the horrid resolution was staggered , viii PREFACE .
... , but as he was passing on with the black design in his thoughts , his eye was caught by Mr. Hanway's de- vice ; and the motto NEVER DESPAIR , rushed upon his mind ; the horrid resolution was staggered , viii PREFACE .
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... a trifling nature , " pass through your pen negligently . " Letters , 1 . 118 . CONSCIENCE . 1. A MAN reproached with a crime of which he knows himself to be innocent , should feel no more uneasiness than if he was said to be ill when 52.
... a trifling nature , " pass through your pen negligently . " Letters , 1 . 118 . CONSCIENCE . 1. A MAN reproached with a crime of which he knows himself to be innocent , should feel no more uneasiness than if he was said to be ill when 52.
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... passing over us , he consulted our natu- ral quiet no less than our spiritual welfare ; since the chief sources of most men's uneasiness are chagrin at what is past , and forebodings of what is to come . Whereas , " what is past ought ...
... passing over us , he consulted our natu- ral quiet no less than our spiritual welfare ; since the chief sources of most men's uneasiness are chagrin at what is past , and forebodings of what is to come . Whereas , " what is past ought ...
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... pass , nor teas'd by fool nor knave , From this still mansion to his grave . Such there , like richer men's , his lot To be in four days ' time forgot . See his Poetic Works and Life . 20. It is an evil disposition in some men to re ...
... pass , nor teas'd by fool nor knave , From this still mansion to his grave . Such there , like richer men's , his lot To be in four days ' time forgot . See his Poetic Works and Life . 20. It is an evil disposition in some men to re ...
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... -Agesilaus , himself a great commander , seeing him passing at the head of his infantry , after having attentively considered and fol- lowed him with his eyes a long time , could not help crying out , in admiration of him , O the 76.
... -Agesilaus , himself a great commander , seeing him passing at the head of his infantry , after having attentively considered and fol- lowed him with his eyes a long time , could not help crying out , in admiration of him , O the 76.
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Страница 68 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Страница 255 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Страница 43 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Страница 255 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Страница 166 - It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, "that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
Страница 255 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Страница 257 - A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.
Страница 277 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Страница 228 - He felt his own powers; he felt what he was capable of having performed ; and he saw how little, comparatively speaking, he had performed. Hence his apprehensions on the near prospect of the account to be made, viewed through the medium of constitutional and morbid melancholy, which often excluded from his sight the bright beams of divine mercy. May those beams ever shine upon us ! But let them not cause us to forget, that talents have been bestowed, of which an account must be rendered; and that...
Страница 44 - Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read!