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Page vii
... affections , so as to lead to the love and practice of real benevolence ; to offer useful rules for guidance through life ; .to raise the idea of moral excellence , by exhibiting some of the characters of the truly great , the good ...
... affections , so as to lead to the love and practice of real benevolence ; to offer useful rules for guidance through life ; .to raise the idea of moral excellence , by exhibiting some of the characters of the truly great , the good ...
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... affections from whence man's happiness must spring , agreeably to 1 Cor . xi . 19.3 For if we believe God to be the Author of things , it is rational to conceive that he may have made them commensurate rather to his own designs in them ...
... affections from whence man's happiness must spring , agreeably to 1 Cor . xi . 19.3 For if we believe God to be the Author of things , it is rational to conceive that he may have made them commensurate rather to his own designs in them ...
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... affection ; some profligate wretches may forget it , and some may dose themselves so long with perverse thinking , as not to see any reason for it ; but in spite of all the ill - natured and false philosophy of these two sorts of people ...
... affection ; some profligate wretches may forget it , and some may dose themselves so long with perverse thinking , as not to see any reason for it ; but in spite of all the ill - natured and false philosophy of these two sorts of people ...
Page 61
... affection or so mighty a respect toward a poor dead man , ( one who was born so obscurely , who lived so poorly , who died so miserably and infamously as a malefactor , — who indeed so died to their knowledge most deservedly , - 1 ...
... affection or so mighty a respect toward a poor dead man , ( one who was born so obscurely , who lived so poorly , who died so miserably and infamously as a malefactor , — who indeed so died to their knowledge most deservedly , - 1 ...
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... affection to his mother was always one of the strongest feelings of his heart . With that self- denying devotion to the happiness of others which was his distinguished quality through life , he de- prived himself of every indulgence ...
... affection to his mother was always one of the strongest feelings of his heart . With that self- denying devotion to the happiness of others which was his distinguished quality through life , he de- prived himself of every indulgence ...
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Page 289 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 213 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 276 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 281 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 218 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 98 - Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 110 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 213 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 213 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 258 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will...