The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 من الصفحات |
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... and retirement , he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and per- ceives within himself fuch real fenfations of his pre- fence , fence , as are more delightful than any thing that THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
... and retirement , he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and per- ceives within himself fuch real fenfations of his pre- fence , fence , as are more delightful than any thing that THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
الصفحة 9
... delightful than any thing that can . be met with in the converfation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death , he ... delight thus to refide and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very ...
... delightful than any thing that can . be met with in the converfation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death , he ... delight thus to refide and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very ...
الصفحة 13
... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are fome time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , " it is both a laudable and ufeful curiofity , to get what ...
... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are fome time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , " it is both a laudable and ufeful curiofity , to get what ...
الصفحة 14
... delight- ful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious fubject that can employ the mind of man , the omniprefence of the Deity ; a fubject which , if poffible , fhould never depart from our ...
... delight- ful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious fubject that can employ the mind of man , the omniprefence of the Deity ; a fubject which , if poffible , fhould never depart from our ...
الصفحة 19
... delight in the pro- duction of fuch abortive intelligences , fuch fhort - lived reasonable beings ? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? capacities that are never to be gra . tified ? How can we find that wifdom which ...
... delight in the pro- duction of fuch abortive intelligences , fuch fhort - lived reasonable beings ? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? capacities that are never to be gra . tified ? How can we find that wifdom which ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.