The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 Seiten |
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... Iters of Advice to a young Academic On Tafte 271 275 279 284 Profperity and Adverfity . An Allegory The Value of Life fixed by Hope and Fear . An Eaftern Story 289 The Natural History of Ants The fame Subject continued Page CONTENTS .
... Iters of Advice to a young Academic On Tafte 271 275 279 284 Profperity and Adverfity . An Allegory The Value of Life fixed by Hope and Fear . An Eaftern Story 289 The Natural History of Ants The fame Subject continued Page CONTENTS .
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... hope to be admitted into this glorious place , " it is both a laudable and ufeful curiofity , to get what informations we can of it ,, while we make ufe of revelation for our guide . When thefe everlafting " doors fhall be opened to us ...
... hope to be admitted into this glorious place , " it is both a laudable and ufeful curiofity , to get what informations we can of it ,, while we make ufe of revelation for our guide . When thefe everlafting " doors fhall be opened to us ...
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... 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 fhould be annihi- lated every ...
... 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 fhould be annihi- lated every ...
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... hope renounced only for poffeffion ; there would not be much caufe for wonder : but that man should draw abfurd conclufions , contrary to his -immediate intereft ; that he should even at the rifque of life , gratify thofe vices in fome ...
... hope renounced only for poffeffion ; there would not be much caufe for wonder : but that man should draw abfurd conclufions , contrary to his -immediate intereft ; that he should even at the rifque of life , gratify thofe vices in fome ...
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... hope from the repetition of them by fome friend that heard them ; that could pass as much time in the pur- fuit of her , as would have attained some useful art or fcience ; and that only to attain a fhort revel of his fenfes under a ...
... hope from the repetition of them by fome friend that heard them ; that could pass as much time in the pur- fuit of her , as would have attained some useful art or fcience ; and that only to attain a fhort revel of his fenfes under a ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.