The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 4 - and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, " and wanderings up and down of other men." So always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
الصفحة 122 - a gibing spirit. Whose influence is begot of that loose grace, Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools; A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it; never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then if sickly ears, Deaf
الصفحة 101 - of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
الصفحة 87 - O' foggage green! And bleak December's winds ensuin ! Baith snell and keen. Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, An' weary winter comin fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash, the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee-bit heap o' leaves an
الصفحة 3 - upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window " of a castle, and to see two battles join upon a " plain: but it is a pleasure incomparable for the " mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified " in the certainty of truth, and from thence to
الصفحة 47 - sometimes, with pinches, nippes, and bobbes, and other waies which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I thincke myselfe in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so jentlie, so pleasantlie, with such fair allurementes to
الصفحة 1 - How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose; But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets. Where no crude surfeit reigns.
الصفحة 138 - Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the Gods, is changed Into some brutish form of wolf, or bear, Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before. The
الصفحة 123 - with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns ; continue then, And I will have you, and that fault withal: But if they will not, throw away that spirit; And I shall find you empty of that fault, Right joyful of your reformation.
الصفحة 140 - preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations, rather than to see the ruin of our protestation, and the enforcement of a slavish life.