Resolves, Divine, Moral, PoliticalHilliard and Brown, 1832 - 316 Seiten |
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... meet with strangers . Every re- port of a musket startles the new - come soldier ; but ranging through the fury of ... meets his wea- poned enemy ? God , that by his providence is akin to wise men , and so does usually protect the ...
... meet with strangers . Every re- port of a musket startles the new - come soldier ; but ranging through the fury of ... meets his wea- poned enemy ? God , that by his providence is akin to wise men , and so does usually protect the ...
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... meet with nothing but the puzzle of the soul and the dazzle of the mind's dim eyes . While we speak of things that are , that we may dissect , and have power and means to find the causes , there is some pleasure , some certainty . But ...
... meet with nothing but the puzzle of the soul and the dazzle of the mind's dim eyes . While we speak of things that are , that we may dissect , and have power and means to find the causes , there is some pleasure , some certainty . But ...
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... meet with mo composed language , the " dulcia sermonis moulded into curious phrase ; though it is be lamented , such wits are not set to the rig tune and consorted to divinity ; who witho doubt , well decked , will cast a far more radia ...
... meet with mo composed language , the " dulcia sermonis moulded into curious phrase ; though it is be lamented , such wits are not set to the rig tune and consorted to divinity ; who witho doubt , well decked , will cast a far more radia ...
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... meet her in her graceful jewels ; not that they give addition to her goodness , but that she is more persuasive in working on the soul she meets with . When I meet with worth which I cannot over - love , I can well endure that art which ...
... meet her in her graceful jewels ; not that they give addition to her goodness , but that she is more persuasive in working on the soul she meets with . When I meet with worth which I cannot over - love , I can well endure that art which ...
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... meet so glorious mercies . To the burying of such treasures there belongs a curse ; to their misspending , punishment and confusion . OF REPREHENSION . To reprehend well , is both the hardest and most necessary part of friendship . Who ...
... meet so glorious mercies . To the burying of such treasures there belongs a curse ; to their misspending , punishment and confusion . OF REPREHENSION . To reprehend well , is both the hardest and most necessary part of friendship . Who ...
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actions Apicius apparel Ausonius beasts believe better blood body Cæsar cast Certainly Cicero corruption creatures Cretians Croesus dance death Deity divine Domitian doth doubtless earth easy enemy envy faith fame fear Felltham fire flame fool friends give glory grow hand hate hath heart heaven hold honest honor Jews keep labor leave light ligion live look Low Countries man's mastiff ment mind morality nature neglect ness never noble offence once ourselves passion peace play pleased pleasure Plutarch poets prayer prisoner Psammeticus Rahab raoh reason religion Resolves rest Roman Saint James Saint Paul Sallust says sometimes soul speak spirit spleen sure Tacitus tell Theophrastus thing thou thought Tibullu tion tongue truth unto venom vice virtue Vitellius wealth wherein wisdom wise withal wonder
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Seite 206 - Though prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night, yet I hold it more needful in the morning, than when our bodies do take their repose.
Seite 18 - And even this world, while we are in it, ought somewhat 2 to be cared for. As those states are likely to flourish, where execution follows sound advisements, so is man, when contemplation is seconded by action. Contemplation generates ; action propagates.
Seite 93 - Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se luppiter ipse petat. dicit; sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
Seite xix - Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Seite 67 - At a sermon well dressed, what understander can have a motion to sleep? Divinity, well ordered, casts forth a bait which angles the soul into the ear ; and how can that close when such a guest sits in it ? They are sermons but of baser metal, which lead the eyes to slumber. And should we...
Seite 260 - Macarius did penance for only killing a gnat in anger. Like the Jewish touch of things unclean, the least miscarriage requires purification. Man is like a watch ; if evening and morning he be not wound up with prayer •and circumspection, he is unprofitable and false ; or serves to mislead.
Seite 66 - A man can never speak too well, where he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses, are both tedious to the ear, and difficult for their retaining. A sentence well couched, takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches, that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. I see not, but that divinity, put into apt significants, might ravish as well as poetry.
Seite 77 - ... be pushed out of company. Even concealment of a fault argues some charity to the delinquent ; and when we tell him of it in secret, it shows we wish he should amend before the world comes to know he is amiss.
Seite 217 - Mihi quidem nunquam persuaderi potuit animos dum in corporibus essent mortalibus vivere, quum...
Seite 175 - A grey head with a wise mind, enriched by learning, is a treasury of grave precept, experience, and wisdom. It is an oracle, to which the lesser wise resort, to know their fate. He that can read and meditate, need not think the evening long, or life irksome; it is, at all times, a fit employment, and a particular solace to him who is bowed down with years.