New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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الصفحة 8
... means he has made use of for that end ; there it is that the curtain is evidently drawn aside , and the Divinity discovered in the full majesty of his glory ; there it is that the proudest , the most reasonably proud of his creatures ...
... means he has made use of for that end ; there it is that the curtain is evidently drawn aside , and the Divinity discovered in the full majesty of his glory ; there it is that the proudest , the most reasonably proud of his creatures ...
الصفحة 9
... of us has any scheme half so conspicuous , either for the wisdom of the means or the steadiness in pursuing them ? MATY . VOL . I. C ON THE OMNISCIENCE OF THE DEITY . How incomprehensible is RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 9 Maty.
... of us has any scheme half so conspicuous , either for the wisdom of the means or the steadiness in pursuing them ? MATY . VOL . I. C ON THE OMNISCIENCE OF THE DEITY . How incomprehensible is RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 9 Maty.
الصفحة 12
... means ! Where but in God is wisdom to be found ! Where but in the world's great Governor is the place of understanding ! CAPPE . REFLECTIONS ON THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE UNIVERSE . THE characters of grandeur and magnificence are so ...
... means ! Where but in God is wisdom to be found ! Where but in the world's great Governor is the place of understanding ! CAPPE . REFLECTIONS ON THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE UNIVERSE . THE characters of grandeur and magnificence are so ...
الصفحة 27
... mean to say , that by the law of nature , which you are desirous of substituting in the room of the Gospel , you do not understand those rules of conduct which an individual , abstracted from the community , and deprived of the ...
... mean to say , that by the law of nature , which you are desirous of substituting in the room of the Gospel , you do not understand those rules of conduct which an individual , abstracted from the community , and deprived of the ...
الصفحة 31
... mean and forlorn roof with the poor and the in- digent , the whole train of human calamities will equally force their way through all the barriers that fence the habitations of the great and the affluent , even to the throne . Of this ...
... mean and forlorn roof with the poor and the in- digent , the whole train of human calamities will equally force their way through all the barriers that fence the habitations of the great and the affluent , even to the throne . Of this ...
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الصفحة 147 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
الصفحة 103 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
الصفحة 73 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
الصفحة 148 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
الصفحة 34 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
الصفحة 75 - ... meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go farthest from the superstition formerly received...
الصفحة 223 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest ; he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys, and saw the hills gradually rising before fiim. As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise...
الصفحة 226 - At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude....
الصفحة 149 - ... 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. To...
الصفحة 148 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.