Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert SandersonWilson, Spence and Mawman, 1796 - 518 páginas |
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Página ix
... muft obviously tend to invigorate our efforts to excel in moral worth , the virtuous characters , which are so happily delineated in the following pages , cannot fail , if considered with serious attention , of producing the most ...
... muft obviously tend to invigorate our efforts to excel in moral worth , the virtuous characters , which are so happily delineated in the following pages , cannot fail , if considered with serious attention , of producing the most ...
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... muft have fuffered the moft poignant anxiety of mind , and of courfe much indifpolition of body " . When the first years of man have been devoted to " the diligence of trades and noiseful gain , " we have no reason to hope that his mind ...
... muft have fuffered the moft poignant anxiety of mind , and of courfe much indifpolition of body " . When the first years of man have been devoted to " the diligence of trades and noiseful gain , " we have no reason to hope that his mind ...
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... muft here alfo meet with paffions heightened by easy and fit defcriptions of joy and forrow ; and find also such various events and re- wards of innocent truth and undiffembled honefty , as is like to leave in him ( if he be a good ...
... muft here alfo meet with paffions heightened by easy and fit defcriptions of joy and forrow ; and find also such various events and re- wards of innocent truth and undiffembled honefty , as is like to leave in him ( if he be a good ...
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... muft , Like th ' other foot , obliquely run : Thy firmness makes my circle just , And me to end where I begun . I return from my account of the vision , to tell the reader , that both be- fore Mr. Donne's going into France , at his ...
... muft , Like th ' other foot , obliquely run : Thy firmness makes my circle just , And me to end where I begun . I return from my account of the vision , to tell the reader , that both be- fore Mr. Donne's going into France , at his ...
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... muft , if you deny me " not fo charitable a favour , fall into your hands as my moft faithful friend " and executor , of whofe care and juftice I make no more doubt than of " God's bleffing on that which I have confcientioufly collected ...
... muft , if you deny me " not fo charitable a favour , fall into your hands as my moft faithful friend " and executor , of whofe care and juftice I make no more doubt than of " God's bleffing on that which I have confcientioufly collected ...
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Página 255 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Página 318 - Ah ! my dear God, though I am clean forgot, Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.
Página 314 - Bohemia. In this place of orator our George Herbert continued eight years, and managed it with as becoming and grave a gaiety as any had ever before or since his time. For he had acquired great learning, and was blest with a high fancy, a civil and sharp wit, and with a natural elegance both in his behaviour, his tongue, and his pen.
Página 252 - Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Página 320 - ... sacred name of priest contemptible, yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities, to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men, and by following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus.
Página 351 - God, so far to trust thy promise, as to return them back to thee ; and by thy grace I will do so, in distributing them to any of thy poor members that are in distress, or do but bear the image of Jesus, my Master. Sir...
Página 68 - a book, in which, by declaring his own spiritual conflicts, he hath comforted and raised many a dejected and discomposed soul, and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ; a book, by the frequent reading whereof, and the assistance of that spirit that seemed to inspire the author, the reader may attain habits of peace and piety, and...
Página 349 - Clergy especially which preach temperance, would avoid surfeiting and take all occasions to express a visible humility and charity in their lives; for this would force a love and an imitation, and an unfeigned reverence from all that knew them to be such." (And for proof of this, we need no other testimony than the life and death of Dr Lake, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.) "This," said Mr Herbert, "would be a cure for the wickedness and growing Atheism of our age.
Página 73 - ORIENS. And now, having brought him through the many labyrinths and perplexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, my desire is, he may rest till I have told my reader, that I have seen many pictures of him, in several habits, and at several ages, and in several postures. And I now mention this, because I have seen one picture of him, drawn by a curious...
Página 320 - And though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued, and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him, that hath done so much for me, as to make me a Christian.