Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volumen1author, 1794 - 1078 páginas |
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... keep his abfence as fecret as poffible , under pretence of being indifpofed ) came to the place : there he found Fleming with the horses , as he had directed . He then acquainted Fleming of his defign of going to the Hague ; and not ...
... keep his abfence as fecret as poffible , under pretence of being indifpofed ) came to the place : there he found Fleming with the horses , as he had directed . He then acquainted Fleming of his defign of going to the Hague ; and not ...
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... keep that golden fentence of our Saviour's ever before you , would that men fhould do unto you , do ye also unto them . ' • Whatsoever ye V. While you make the precepts of Scripture the conftant rule of your duty , you may with cou ...
... keep that golden fentence of our Saviour's ever before you , would that men fhould do unto you , do ye also unto them . ' • Whatsoever ye V. While you make the precepts of Scripture the conftant rule of your duty , you may with cou ...
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... keep a fharp eye upon both , left we are trapt into mifchief between them . X. Honour , profit , and pleasure , have been fometimes called the world's trinity , they are its three chief idols ; each of them is fufficient to draw a foul ...
... keep a fharp eye upon both , left we are trapt into mifchief between them . X. Honour , profit , and pleasure , have been fometimes called the world's trinity , they are its three chief idols ; each of them is fufficient to draw a foul ...
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... Keep this thought ever in your mind.- It is a world of vanity and vexation in which you live ; the flatteries and promifes of it are vain and deceitful ; prepare therefore to meet difappoint- ments . Many of its occurrences are teafing ...
... Keep this thought ever in your mind.- It is a world of vanity and vexation in which you live ; the flatteries and promifes of it are vain and deceitful ; prepare therefore to meet difappoint- ments . Many of its occurrences are teafing ...
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... made a voluntary confeffion , and fought for a refuge from the torments of confcience in death . What a leffon for all men to keep a con- fcience void of offence ! D FRIEND- A FRIENDSHIP . AN ALLEGORY . Rich merchant had a ( 17 )
... made a voluntary confeffion , and fought for a refuge from the torments of confcience in death . What a leffon for all men to keep a con- fcience void of offence ! D FRIEND- A FRIENDSHIP . AN ALLEGORY . Rich merchant had a ( 17 )
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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.