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 páginas |
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... hath been saved as by fire ; " for the rest is consumed and vanished . The 26 66 people have paid subsidies ever since , and we are now in no very good case to pay an army . ” [ A more exact account of this design and its conse- quences ...
... hath been saved as by fire ; " for the rest is consumed and vanished . The 26 66 people have paid subsidies ever since , and we are now in no very good case to pay an army . ” [ A more exact account of this design and its conse- quences ...
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... their food in such quantities , that they vomit it up again like dogs . So Job of the rapacious greedy oppressor : " He hath swallowed down " riches , and he shall vomit them up again . " Chap . xx . 15. What is avarice , but such an 77.
... their food in such quantities , that they vomit it up again like dogs . So Job of the rapacious greedy oppressor : " He hath swallowed down " riches , and he shall vomit them up again . " Chap . xx . 15. What is avarice , but such an 77.
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... hath been put down , or violated , it " ought to be reverently restored . " - This raised a great clamour , and the conclusion was suppressed . On the report getting about , John Blondel , then residing in London , wrote to his brother ...
... hath been put down , or violated , it " ought to be reverently restored . " - This raised a great clamour , and the conclusion was suppressed . On the report getting about , John Blondel , then residing in London , wrote to his brother ...
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... hath on the lives of its professors is frequently made an argument against it . So with regard to philosophy , the same objection is thus put and answered in Cicero's Tusc . Quest . lib . ii . sect . 5.-A. Nonne verendum est igitur , ne ...
... hath on the lives of its professors is frequently made an argument against it . So with regard to philosophy , the same objection is thus put and answered in Cicero's Tusc . Quest . lib . ii . sect . 5.-A. Nonne verendum est igitur , ne ...
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... dear husband ! live out mine . 19. On viewing the Deanry House , by Dr. Smith , late Dean of Chester . Within this pile of mould'ring stones The Dean hath laid his wearied bones ; In hope to end his days in quiet , Exempt 67.
... dear husband ! live out mine . 19. On viewing the Deanry House , by Dr. Smith , late Dean of Chester . Within this pile of mould'ring stones The Dean hath laid his wearied bones ; In hope to end his days in quiet , Exempt 67.
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 257 - A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 44 - Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read!