The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being . As this is a fpeculation , which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself , I fhall enlarge farther upon it , by confidering that part of ...
... seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being . As this is a fpeculation , which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself , I fhall enlarge farther upon it , by confidering that part of ...
Pàgina 129
... seem content to want ; it is confidered as a vulgar and ignoble virtue , below the ambition of greatness or attention of wit , fcarcely re quifite among men of gaiety and fpirit , and fold at its highest rate when it is facrificed to a ...
... seem content to want ; it is confidered as a vulgar and ignoble virtue , below the ambition of greatness or attention of wit , fcarcely re quifite among men of gaiety and fpirit , and fold at its highest rate when it is facrificed to a ...
Pàgina 133
... a large otter's fkin ftuffed with hay , which his mother ordered to be hung up in that man- ner , and the knight looks upon with great fatisfaction , because because it seems he was but nine years old when THE MORAL MISCELLANY . 133.
... a large otter's fkin ftuffed with hay , which his mother ordered to be hung up in that man- ner , and the knight looks upon with great fatisfaction , because because it seems he was but nine years old when THE MORAL MISCELLANY . 133.
Pàgina 134
... seems he was but nine years old when his dog killed him . A little room adjoining to the hall is a kind of arfenal filled with guns of several fizes and in- ventions , with which the knight has made great havock in the woods , and ...
... seems he was but nine years old when his dog killed him . A little room adjoining to the hall is a kind of arfenal filled with guns of several fizes and in- ventions , with which the knight has made great havock in the woods , and ...
Pàgina 171
... seems to be particular occafion for it . You fay , in your last that you are two thousand pounds the poorer this year for play . I am forry to hear it , with all my heart ! " for we people in the country look upon two thousand pounds as ...
... seems to be particular occafion for it . You fay , in your last that you are two thousand pounds the poorer this year for play . I am forry to hear it , with all my heart ! " for we people in the country look upon two thousand pounds as ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.