Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 Seiten |
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... short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in re- fignation to his fate , when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper . He advanced towards the light , and finding that it proceeded from the ...
... short , and his knees trembled , and he was on the point of lying down in re- fignation to his fate , when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper . He advanced towards the light , and finding that it proceeded from the ...
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... short , to fpeak of him in the language of the old philosophers , he is a being whose centre is every where , and his circumference no where . In the second place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience in- deed ...
... short , to fpeak of him in the language of the old philosophers , he is a being whose centre is every where , and his circumference no where . In the second place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience in- deed ...
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... short life . The filk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- bium his foul in virtue , and come up to ...
... short life . The filk - worm , after having spun her task , lays her eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , esta- bium his foul in virtue , and come up to ...
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... short , my fever left me , and I had the fatisfaction to fee the lovely creature overjoyed at my recovery . She came to fee me oftener as I grew better ; and I already felt a stronger and more tender affection for her , than I ever bore ...
... short , my fever left me , and I had the fatisfaction to fee the lovely creature overjoyed at my recovery . She came to fee me oftener as I grew better ; and I already felt a stronger and more tender affection for her , than I ever bore ...
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... short flights , between each of which the mind may lie at reft . For every fingle act of progression a short time is sufficient ; and it is only necessary , that whenever that time is afforded , it be well employed . Few minds will be ...
... short flights , between each of which the mind may lie at reft . For every fingle act of progression a short time is sufficient ; and it is only necessary , that whenever that time is afforded , it be well employed . Few minds will be ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 279 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Seite 251 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Seite 266 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Seite 282 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 437 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Seite 434 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.
Seite 282 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Seite 1 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and...
Seite 285 - GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him ; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 266 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord.