Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volumen1author, 1794 - 1078 páginas |
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Página 11
... most entirely , that you ferve him with fincere delight , and that you cannot live a day without God in the world . VII . You know yourself to be a man , an indi- gent creature and a finner , and you profess to be a Chriftian , a ...
... most entirely , that you ferve him with fincere delight , and that you cannot live a day without God in the world . VII . You know yourself to be a man , an indi- gent creature and a finner , and you profess to be a Chriftian , a ...
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... most exquifitely fenfible of pain , and to grow as faft as it is devoured . What can be a ftronger repre- fentation of the moft lingering and moft acute corporeal pains ? Yet , ftrong as it is , it falls greatly fhort of the anguifh of ...
... most exquifitely fenfible of pain , and to grow as faft as it is devoured . What can be a ftronger repre- fentation of the moft lingering and moft acute corporeal pains ? Yet , ftrong as it is , it falls greatly fhort of the anguifh of ...
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... most powerful into adverfity ; but it is death only can . rob us of a friend , as it does of ourselves ; it is the only advantage that no human power can deprive us of . Find but one friend in the courfe of your life , and you will find ...
... most powerful into adverfity ; but it is death only can . rob us of a friend , as it does of ourselves ; it is the only advantage that no human power can deprive us of . Find but one friend in the courfe of your life , and you will find ...
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... most precious . " The young man took leave of his father , and paffed into a country not far diftant from that which he left . He fojourned there but a fhort time , and returned to his own . " I did not ex- pect you so foon , " faid the ...
... most precious . " The young man took leave of his father , and paffed into a country not far diftant from that which he left . He fojourned there but a fhort time , and returned to his own . " I did not ex- pect you so foon , " faid the ...
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... most perfpicuous eye could fee but a little way . It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools , for many funk unexpe & - edly while they were courting the gale with full fails , and infulting those whom they had left be- hind . So ...
... most perfpicuous eye could fee but a little way . It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools , for many funk unexpe & - edly while they were courting the gale with full fails , and infulting those whom they had left be- hind . So ...
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Página 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Página 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 190 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 190 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 189 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Página 59 - I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures.
Página 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 25 - ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.
Página 8 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Página 45 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.