Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and CharacterBowles and Dearborn, 1827 - 455 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iv
... Charles II . ] DISCOURSE XIV . The Evils of Knowledge . - ECCLES . i . 18 . DISCOURSE XV . Of Complaints of the Times . - ECCLES . vii . 10 . 317 331 SELECTIONS FROM VARIOUS DISCOURSES . DISCOURSE I. Page All Contingencies iv CONTENTS .
... Charles II . ] DISCOURSE XIV . The Evils of Knowledge . - ECCLES . i . 18 . DISCOURSE XV . Of Complaints of the Times . - ECCLES . vii . 10 . 317 331 SELECTIONS FROM VARIOUS DISCOURSES . DISCOURSE I. Page All Contingencies iv CONTENTS .
الصفحة xiv
... knowledge of Aristotle , with all the beautiful lights , graces , and embellishments of Cicero . One knows not which most to admire in his writings , the strength of reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination . " And further ...
... knowledge of Aristotle , with all the beautiful lights , graces , and embellishments of Cicero . One knows not which most to admire in his writings , the strength of reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination . " And further ...
الصفحة xvii
... knowledge extends , than any contemporary preacher , certainly any court chaplain , -to the prevailing licentiousness of manners . Still , one could have wished that he had not been so strangely blind to its true source ; or , to come ...
... knowledge extends , than any contemporary preacher , certainly any court chaplain , -to the prevailing licentiousness of manners . Still , one could have wished that he had not been so strangely blind to its true source ; or , to come ...
الصفحة 29
... knowledge . How fre- quent and exalted a pleasure did David find from his meditation in the divine law ! All the day long it was the theme of his thoughts . The affairs of state might indeed employ , but it was this only that refresh ...
... knowledge . How fre- quent and exalted a pleasure did David find from his meditation in the divine law ! All the day long it was the theme of his thoughts . The affairs of state might indeed employ , but it was this only that refresh ...
الصفحة 69
... knowledge a pious , so atheists themselves will confess to have been a wise prince , ) he , when he took the kingly government upon himself , by his own choice , seconded by divine institution , vested the priesthood in his brother ...
... knowledge a pious , so atheists themselves will confess to have been a wise prince , ) he , when he took the kingly government upon himself , by his own choice , seconded by divine institution , vested the priesthood in his brother ...
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الصفحة 174 - But whoso shall offend one of these little ones, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
الصفحة 81 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
الصفحة 365 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
الصفحة 41 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
الصفحة 124 - Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
الصفحة 120 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
الصفحة 354 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
الصفحة 122 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
الصفحة 62 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem : behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land. of Egypt.
الصفحة 81 - ... now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.