Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c: Together with Nine Papers from the Olla Podrida; and PoemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 - 295 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iv
... seems to have formed for his own.use , and with little of ito idea , perhaps , of its ever appearing before the public . It seems to have been a sort of comman - place book , or repo- sitory of such things as he judged worthy of re ...
... seems to have formed for his own.use , and with little of ito idea , perhaps , of its ever appearing before the public . It seems to have been a sort of comman - place book , or repo- sitory of such things as he judged worthy of re ...
الصفحة vii
... seem necessary to apologize for introducing the following anecdote by way of illustration . An inconsiderate person would not think that the arms and motto * Other instances of the same kind may be found in some of the Notes to the ...
... seem necessary to apologize for introducing the following anecdote by way of illustration . An inconsiderate person would not think that the arms and motto * Other instances of the same kind may be found in some of the Notes to the ...
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... Father in heaven . AFRICAN ANTS . THESE insects sometimes set forward in such multitudes , that the whole earth seems to be in motion . A corps of them attacked and covered an elephant quietly feeding in a pasture . In eight GO.
... Father in heaven . AFRICAN ANTS . THESE insects sometimes set forward in such multitudes , that the whole earth seems to be in motion . A corps of them attacked and covered an elephant quietly feeding in a pasture . In eight GO.
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... seem to have been anxious , above all things , not to surpass in knowledge their prophet Mahomed , generally allowed to be illiterate . BLIND MAN . " I NEVER had the happiness , " said the blind man in the Princess Palatine's dream ...
... seem to have been anxious , above all things , not to surpass in knowledge their prophet Mahomed , generally allowed to be illiterate . BLIND MAN . " I NEVER had the happiness , " said the blind man in the Princess Palatine's dream ...
الصفحة 44
... seem , like comets , to have their periodical returns . 6. Some think variety of religions as pleasing to God as variety of flowers . Now there can be but one religion which is true ; and the God of truth cannot be pleased with ...
... seem , like comets , to have their periodical returns . 6. Some think variety of religions as pleasing to God as variety of flowers . Now there can be but one religion which is true ; and the God of truth cannot be pleased with ...
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Apophthegms applied ATHANASIAN CREED Augustus Cæsar beautiful behold Bishop bitter melon body called cause cerning charity Christ Christian Church Church of England Cicero conversation death Dict divine DRYDEN earth employed Epaminondas Essay excellent faith father favour fear gentleman GEORG give glory Gymnosophists happiness hath heart heaven honour human Ibid Johnson kind King labour lacteal lady learned Letters light live look Lord Lord Chesterfield MAGDALEN COLLEGE man's manner matter melancholy ment mind morning nature never newspaper nihil observed occasion OLLA PODRIDA pains passions perhaps person philosophers Phocion piety pleasure Plutarch proper quod racter reader reason religion Sallust says sect sermon shew SOCINIANS soul speak spirit sweet tells thee thing thou thought tion truth turn vice virtue vomere wise wish words write young
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الصفحة 68 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
الصفحة 255 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
الصفحة 43 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
الصفحة 255 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
الصفحة 166 - It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, "that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
الصفحة 255 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
الصفحة 257 - A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.
الصفحة 277 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
الصفحة 228 - He felt his own powers; he felt what he was capable of having performed ; and he saw how little, comparatively speaking, he had performed. Hence his apprehensions on the near prospect of the account to be made, viewed through the medium of constitutional and morbid melancholy, which often excluded from his sight the bright beams of divine mercy. May those beams ever shine upon us ! But let them not cause us to forget, that talents have been bestowed, of which an account must be rendered; and that...
الصفحة 44 - Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read!