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 8
... better things within his foul , and whom he looks upon as his defender , his glory , and the lifter - up of his head . In his deepest folitude and retirement , he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and per- ceives ...
... better things within his foul , and whom he looks upon as his defender , his glory , and the lifter - up of his head . In his deepest folitude and retirement , he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and per- ceives ...
Pàgina 17
... better part in this choice . However , as I have before intimated , our reafon might in fuch a cafe be fo overfet by the imagi- nation as to difpofe fome perfons to fink under the con- fideration of the great length of the first part of ...
... better part in this choice . However , as I have before intimated , our reafon might in fuch a cafe be fo overfet by the imagi- nation as to difpofe fome perfons to fink under the con- fideration of the great length of the first part of ...
Pàgina 30
... better man . · • I must confefs I do not know how to truft a man who believes neither heaven nor hell , or , in other words , a future ftate of rewards and punish- ' ments . Not only natural felf - love , but reafon di- rects us to ...
... better man . · • I must confefs I do not know how to truft a man who believes neither heaven nor hell , or , in other words , a future ftate of rewards and punish- ' ments . Not only natural felf - love , but reafon di- rects us to ...
Pàgina 49
... better ; and as a tribute due to the merit of the dead , and a token of his esteem for the living , he generously threw him back a fhilling to prevent his being ftopped at the turnpike . He now remounted his horfe , and fet off towards ...
... better ; and as a tribute due to the merit of the dead , and a token of his esteem for the living , he generously threw him back a fhilling to prevent his being ftopped at the turnpike . He now remounted his horfe , and fet off towards ...
Pàgina 56
... better employed . " But when I caft about all the inftances which I have met with in all my reading , I find not one fo generous , fo honeft , and fo noble as that of Jofeph in holy writ : When his maf- ter had trufted him fo ...
... better employed . " But when I caft about all the inftances which I have met with in all my reading , I find not one fo generous , fo honeft , and fo noble as that of Jofeph in holy writ : When his maf- ter had trufted him fo ...
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The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse ... Visualització completa - 1758 |
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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.