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... Best of Beings fend us into the world for this end , to go weeping through it , -to vex and shorten a life fhort and vexatious enough already ? Do you think , my good preacher , that he who is infinitely happy , can envy us our ...
... Best of Beings fend us into the world for this end , to go weeping through it , -to vex and shorten a life fhort and vexatious enough already ? Do you think , my good preacher , that he who is infinitely happy , can envy us our ...
Page 45
... best and kindeft motives for the worft and moft un- juftifiable parts of his conduct ! We are ftill worse cafuifts ; and the deceit is proportionably ftronger with a man , when he is going to judge of himfelf , -that deareft of all ...
... best and kindeft motives for the worft and moft un- juftifiable parts of his conduct ! We are ftill worse cafuifts ; and the deceit is proportionably ftronger with a man , when he is going to judge of himfelf , -that deareft of all ...
Page 69
... best things which wits have faid of pleasure , have expreffed what he has felt , when , by a fea- fonable kindness , he has " made the heart of " the widow fing for joy . " Mark then the ex- preffions of unutterable pleafure and har ...
... best things which wits have faid of pleasure , have expreffed what he has felt , when , by a fea- fonable kindness , he has " made the heart of " the widow fing for joy . " Mark then the ex- preffions of unutterable pleafure and har ...
Page 70
... best way of enlarging human happiness was , by a communication of it to others . And if it was neceffary here , or there was time to refine upon this doctrine , one might farther maintain , exclufive of the happinels which the mind ...
... best way of enlarging human happiness was , by a communication of it to others . And if it was neceffary here , or there was time to refine upon this doctrine , one might farther maintain , exclufive of the happinels which the mind ...
Page 108
... best contrivances and means fhould have beft fuccefs ; —and fince it often falls out otherwife in the cafe of man , where the wifeft projects are overthrown , and the most hopeful means are blafted , and time and chance happen to all ...
... best contrivances and means fhould have beft fuccefs ; —and fince it often falls out otherwife in the cafe of man , where the wifeft projects are overthrown , and the most hopeful means are blafted , and time and chance happen to all ...
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Page 35 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 12 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 48 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 401 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk ? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus...
Page 42 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Page 66 - And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
Page 415 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Page 273 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page viii - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 62 - Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth la truth.