Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c: Together with Nine Papers from the Olla Podrida; and Poems |
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... animals and plants , makes a fine reflection upon the design of Providence in permitting such things.Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit , primusque per artem Movit agros , curis acuens mortalia corda ; Nec torpere ...
... animals and plants , makes a fine reflection upon the design of Providence in permitting such things.Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit , primusque per artem Movit agros , curis acuens mortalia corda ; Nec torpere ...
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Page 70 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 257 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
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Page 257 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
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Page 230 - He felt his own powers; he felt what he was capable of having performed ; and he saw how little, comparatively speaking, he had performed. Hence his apprehensions on the near prospect of the account to be made, viewed through the medium of constitutional and morbid melancholy, which often excluded from his sight the bright beams of divine mercy. May those beams ever shine upon us ! But let them not cause us to forget, that talents have been bestowed, of which an account must be rendered; and that...
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| Title | Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c: Together with Nine Papers from the Olla Podrida; and Poems |
| Author | George Horne |
| Publisher | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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