New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, المجلد 1C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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الصفحة 21
... wishes and expectations of our mysterious nature . I am only to remind you of their difference from every thing that hu- man wisdom has taught , either in former or in succeeding ages ; and to ask you , whether He who , eighteen hundred ...
... wishes and expectations of our mysterious nature . I am only to remind you of their difference from every thing that hu- man wisdom has taught , either in former or in succeeding ages ; and to ask you , whether He who , eighteen hundred ...
الصفحة 30
... wishes , and disgusted after all possession , is a spectacle of human misery that would enhance the peace of a true Christian , did all the influence of a divine religion not infuse into his heart as much pity for his mistaken brethren ...
... wishes , and disgusted after all possession , is a spectacle of human misery that would enhance the peace of a true Christian , did all the influence of a divine religion not infuse into his heart as much pity for his mistaken brethren ...
الصفحة 52
... wishes the happiness of his creatures . And this conclusion being once established , we are at liberty to go on with the rule built upon it , namely , " that the method of coming at the will of God , concerning any action , by the light ...
... wishes the happiness of his creatures . And this conclusion being once established , we are at liberty to go on with the rule built upon it , namely , " that the method of coming at the will of God , concerning any action , by the light ...
الصفحة 54
... , were it - to be prolonged according to his wish ! At any rate , is it desirable to draw life out to the last dregs , and to wait till old age pour upon you You its whole store of diseases and sorrows ? lament 54 P. I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... , were it - to be prolonged according to his wish ! At any rate , is it desirable to draw life out to the last dregs , and to wait till old age pour upon you You its whole store of diseases and sorrows ? lament 54 P. I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
الصفحة 59
... in a sea of darkness . The Deist may construct a god after his own wishes , to quiet his fears or indulge his passion , or license his affections ; to palliate RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 59- Rennell The Credulity of Deists.
... in a sea of darkness . The Deist may construct a god after his own wishes , to quiet his fears or indulge his passion , or license his affections ; to palliate RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 59- Rennell The Credulity of Deists.
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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 138 - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
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 264 - ... obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over—
الصفحة 266 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
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 262 - ... side, or the fruits that hung upon the branches. At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with water-falls.
الصفحة 149 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
الصفحة 128 - It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency. But, such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest...