The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 стор. |
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... neceffary to fupport us in our exiftence ; but he may leave this our existence to itself , with regard to its happiness or mifery . For , in this sense , he may caft • caft us away from his prefence , and take THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
... neceffary to fupport us in our exiftence ; but he may leave this our existence to itself , with regard to its happiness or mifery . For , in this sense , he may caft • caft us away from his prefence , and take THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
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... defire terminated in money is fantaftical ; fo is the defire of outward diftinations , which bring no delight of sense , nor recommend us as ufeful nfeful to mankind ; and the defire of things merely 58 THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
... defire terminated in money is fantaftical ; fo is the defire of outward diftinations , which bring no delight of sense , nor recommend us as ufeful nfeful to mankind ; and the defire of things merely 58 THE MORAL MISCELLANY .
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... sense that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here , with a happiness hereafter , large as our defires , and lafting as our immortal fouls . This is a perpetual fpring of ...
... sense that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here , with a happiness hereafter , large as our defires , and lafting as our immortal fouls . This is a perpetual fpring of ...
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... sense of his condition ; re- gret of enjoyments which could never return , would preclude all that remained ; and the laft mournful effects of decay would be haftened and aggravated by anticipa- tion . But those who have been enfeebled ...
... sense of his condition ; re- gret of enjoyments which could never return , would preclude all that remained ; and the laft mournful effects of decay would be haftened and aggravated by anticipa- tion . But those who have been enfeebled ...
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... sense of guilt and remorfe ; and generally produce fome hafty and zealous purposes of more uni- form virtue and more ardent devotion , of fomething that may fecure us , not only from the worm that never dies and the fire that is not ...
... sense of guilt and remorfe ; and generally produce fome hafty and zealous purposes of more uni- form virtue and more ardent devotion , of fomething that may fecure us , not only from the worm that never dies and the fire that is not ...
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Сторінка 127 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Сторінка 344 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Сторінка 168 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls 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.
Сторінка 13 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Сторінка 127 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Сторінка 346 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Сторінка 344 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Сторінка 346 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Сторінка 344 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.