The Holy and Profane StatesLittle, Brown, 1864 - 325 páginas |
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... devil for a sign in their faces . Sure cheerfulness in doing renders a deed more ac- ceptable . Not like those servants , who doing their work unwillingly , their looks do enter a protestation against what their hands are doing . He ...
... devil for a sign in their faces . Sure cheerfulness in doing renders a deed more ac- ceptable . Not like those servants , who doing their work unwillingly , their looks do enter a protestation against what their hands are doing . He ...
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... devil possesseth a ser- vant , a winding cane is the fittest circle , and the master the exorcist to drive it out . Some servants are so talkative , one may as well com- mand the echo as them not to speak last ; and then they count ...
... devil possesseth a ser- vant , a winding cane is the fittest circle , and the master the exorcist to drive it out . Some servants are so talkative , one may as well com- mand the echo as them not to speak last ; and then they count ...
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... devil and Michael the archangel ? He tyrannizeth not over a weak and under- matched adversary ; but seeks rather to cover his weakness , if he be a modest man . When a Professor pressed an answerer ( a better Chris- tian than a clerk ) ...
... devil and Michael the archangel ? He tyrannizeth not over a weak and under- matched adversary ; but seeks rather to cover his weakness , if he be a modest man . When a Professor pressed an answerer ( a better Chris- tian than a clerk ) ...
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... devil ; nor be forced by famine , for a good conscience is a continual feast . He chiefly avoids those sins to which soldiers are taxed as most subject : namely , common swearing , which impaireth one's credit by de- grees , and maketh ...
... devil ; nor be forced by famine , for a good conscience is a continual feast . He chiefly avoids those sins to which soldiers are taxed as most subject : namely , common swearing , which impaireth one's credit by de- grees , and maketh ...
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... devil . Object . But there are some intricate cases ( as in titles of land ) , which cannot otherwise be decided . Seeing , therefore , that in such difficul- ties the right in question cannot be delivered by any judicial proceedings ...
... devil . Object . But there are some intricate cases ( as in titles of land ) , which cannot otherwise be decided . Seeing , therefore , that in such difficul- ties the right in question cannot be delivered by any judicial proceedings ...
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Página 279 - I charge thee therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdom ; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Página 61 - Is one who made haste to come into the world to bring his parents the first news of male posterity, and is well rewarded for his tidings.
Página 84 - He doth not only move the bread of life, and toss it up and down in generalities, but also breaks it into particular directions. Drawing it down to cases of conscience, that a man may be warranted in his particular actions, whether they be lawful or not.
Página 33 - English by cunning in treaties; so if the husband should chance by his power, in his passion, to prejudice his wife's right, she wisely knoweth, by compounding and complying, to recover and rectify it again.
Página 215 - It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul ; for while the Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements : it digs without spade, sails without ship, flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed : in a moment striding from the...
Página 205 - NGER is one of the sinews of the soul : -"• he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob, sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and, with the Caspian Sea, never ebb nor flow.
Página 185 - It is good to make a jest, but not to make a trade of 'jesting. The Earl of Leicester, knowing that Queen Elizabeth was much delighted to see a gentleman dance well, brought the master of a dancing-school to dance before her.
Página 36 - When they grow up, she teacheth them not pride, but painfulness, making their hands to clothe their backs, and them to wear the livery of their own industry. She makes not her daughters gentlewomen before they be women, rather teaching them what they should pay to others than receive from them.
Página 109 - Eaton, who would never suffer any wandering, begging scholar (such as justly the statute hath ranked in the fore-front of rogues) to come into his school, but would thrust him out with earnestness, (however privately charitable unto him,) lest his school-boys should be disheartened from their books, by seeing some scholars, after their studying in the University, preferred to beggary.
Página 118 - TS a gentleman in ore, whom the next age -*- may see refined ; and is the wax capable of a gentle impression, when the prince shall stamp it. Wise Solon (who accounted Tellus the Athenian the most happy man for living privately on his own lands) would surely have pronounced the English yeomanry a fortunate condition, living in the temperate zone, betwixt greatness and want, — an estate of people almost peculiar to England.