English Prose: Seventeenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1917 |
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... occasion of the fabulous Dodonean oracle . But , however this were , methinks I still hear , sure I am that I still feel , the dismal groans of our forests , when that late dreadful hurricane ( happening on the 26th of November 1703 ) ...
... occasion of the fabulous Dodonean oracle . But , however this were , methinks I still hear , sure I am that I still feel , the dismal groans of our forests , when that late dreadful hurricane ( happening on the 26th of November 1703 ) ...
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... occasion of firing the town . This report did so terrify , that on a sudden there was such an up- roar and tumult that they ran from their goods , and taking what weapons they could come at , they could not be stopped from falling on ...
... occasion of firing the town . This report did so terrify , that on a sudden there was such an up- roar and tumult that they ran from their goods , and taking what weapons they could come at , they could not be stopped from falling on ...
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... occasion to wars and tumults ; but it sharpened their courage , kept up a good discipline , and the nations that were most exercised by them always increased in power and number : so that no country seems ever to have been of greater ...
... occasion to wars and tumults ; but it sharpened their courage , kept up a good discipline , and the nations that were most exercised by them always increased in power and number : so that no country seems ever to have been of greater ...
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... occasion may require , in order to the public good . ( From the Same . ) THE VIRTUES OF LIBERTY THE secret counsels of God are impenetrable ; but the ways by which He accomplishes His designs are often evident . When He intends to exalt ...
... occasion may require , in order to the public good . ( From the Same . ) THE VIRTUES OF LIBERTY THE secret counsels of God are impenetrable ; but the ways by which He accomplishes His designs are often evident . When He intends to exalt ...
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... occasion , but all oaths , according to Christ's doctrine , who hath commanded his not to swear at all . Now if thou or any of you , or any of your ministers or priests here , will prove that ever Christ or his apostles after they had ...
... occasion , but all oaths , according to Christ's doctrine , who hath commanded his not to swear at all . Now if thou or any of you , or any of your ministers or priests here , will prove that ever Christ or his apostles after they had ...
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الصفحة 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
الصفحة 322 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
الصفحة 161 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
الصفحة 550 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
الصفحة 90 - Then went the jury out, whose names were, Mr Blind-man, Mr No-good, Mr Malice, Mr Love-lust, Mr Live-loose, Mr Heady, Mr High-mind, Mr Enmity, Mr Liar, Mr Cruelty, Mr Hate-light, and Mr Implacable; who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the Judge. And first, among themselves, Mr Blind-man, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr No-good, Away with such a fellow from...
الصفحة 523 - Bagdat. in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, "Surely," said I, "man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
الصفحة 526 - The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for Eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
الصفحة 521 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last...
الصفحة 282 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
الصفحة 525 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls 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.