The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... receiving new improvements to all eternity , fhall fall away into nothing almoft as foon as it is created ? Are fuch abilities made for no pur- pofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he ...
... receiving new improvements to all eternity , fhall fall away into nothing almoft as foon as it is created ? Are fuch abilities made for no pur- pofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he ...
Pagina 23
... receiving addi- tional improvements , according to the fpecies in which they are implanted . This progrefs in nature is fo very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior fpecies comes very near to the most imperfect of that which ...
... receiving addi- tional improvements , according to the fpecies in which they are implanted . This progrefs in nature is fo very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior fpecies comes very near to the most imperfect of that which ...
Pagina 27
... received . One would wonder to hear fceptical men difputing for the reason of animals , and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the ufe of that faculty . C 2 Reafon Reason fhews itfelf in all ...
... received . One would wonder to hear fceptical men difputing for the reason of animals , and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the ufe of that faculty . C 2 Reafon Reason fhews itfelf in all ...
Pagina 31
... received articles of the Chriftian reli- gion have been fo clearly proved , from the autho- rity of that divine revelation in which they are de- • livered , that is is impoffible for those who have ears to hear , and eyes to fee , not ...
... received articles of the Chriftian reli- gion have been fo clearly proved , from the autho- rity of that divine revelation in which they are de- • livered , that is is impoffible for those who have ears to hear , and eyes to fee , not ...
Pagina 49
... receiving a blow on his head with the flock of the piftol that had been juft fired , reeled back a few paces ; the other having fired at the murderer without fuccefs , attempted to dismount him and fucceeded ; but while they were ...
... receiving a blow on his head with the flock of the piftol that had been juft fired , reeled back a few paces ; the other having fired at the murderer without fuccefs , attempted to dismount him and fucceeded ; but while they were ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.