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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... paffions , and enliven all the powers of man . How happy therefore is an intel- lectual being , who by prayer and meditation , by vir- tue and good works , opens this communication be- tween God and his own foul ! Though the whole crea ...
... paffions , and enliven all the powers of man . How happy therefore is an intel- lectual being , who by prayer and meditation , by vir- tue and good works , opens this communication be- tween God and his own foul ! Though the whole crea ...
الصفحة 18
... paffions and fentiments , as particularly from its love of exiftence , its horror of annihilation , and its hopes of immortality , with that fecret fatisfaction which it finds in the practice of vir- tue , and that uneafinefs which ...
... paffions and fentiments , as particularly from its love of exiftence , its horror of annihilation , and its hopes of immortality , with that fecret fatisfaction which it finds in the practice of vir- tue , and that uneafinefs which ...
الصفحة 19
... paffions , efta- blish his foul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the ftage . Would an infinitely wife Being make fuch glorious creatures . for fo mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the ...
... paffions , efta- blish his foul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , before he is hurried off the ftage . Would an infinitely wife Being make fuch glorious creatures . for fo mean a purpose ? Can he delight in the ...
الصفحة 37
... paffions , and keeps the foul in a perpetual calm . But having already touched on this laft confideration , I shall here take no- tice , that the world , on which we are placed , is filled with innumerable objects that are proper to ...
... paffions , and keeps the foul in a perpetual calm . But having already touched on this laft confideration , I shall here take no- tice , that the world , on which we are placed , is filled with innumerable objects that are proper to ...
الصفحة 46
... paffion as they foar . " But truft me , love , the Raven's wing " Is not to be compar'd with mine ; " Nor can the Lark fo fweetly fing " As I , who ftrength with fweetness join . " With thee I'll prove the fweets of love , " With thee ...
... paffion as they foar . " But truft me , love , the Raven's wing " Is not to be compar'd with mine ; " Nor can the Lark fo fweetly fing " As I , who ftrength with fweetness join . " With thee I'll prove the fweets of love , " With thee ...
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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.