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... fhew you , the boneftum , or virtue , is the only good : because you feem to think that in my former epiftle I have not executed the faid purpose ; and that I have exhibited virtue rather as recommended , than proved ; and to contract ...
... fhew you , the boneftum , or virtue , is the only good : because you feem to think that in my former epiftle I have not executed the faid purpose ; and that I have exhibited virtue rather as recommended , than proved ; and to contract ...
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... fhew that he had lived ninety nine years . You see how an old woman can glory in her length of days . Surely her vanity would have been infupportable could she have completed her hundredth year . Life is like a play upon the stage ; it ...
... fhew that he had lived ninety nine years . You see how an old woman can glory in her length of days . Surely her vanity would have been infupportable could she have completed her hundredth year . Life is like a play upon the stage ; it ...
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... fhew that your distemper may be conquer'd , or at least supported with tience . Believe me , Lucilius , virtue finds a place even in the fick - bed . Not only arms and battles give teftimony of a valiant mind , unterri fied by danger ...
... fhew that your distemper may be conquer'd , or at least supported with tience . Believe me , Lucilius , virtue finds a place even in the fick - bed . Not only arms and battles give teftimony of a valiant mind , unterri fied by danger ...
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... fhew it formerly to paffengers at a greater diftance than they do now ( b ) . Though this might happen , not because the mountain's height is lowered , but because the fires are weaken'd and do not blaze out with their former ...
... fhew it formerly to paffengers at a greater diftance than they do now ( b ) . Though this might happen , not because the mountain's height is lowered , but because the fires are weaken'd and do not blaze out with their former ...
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... fhew yourfelf at least equal to those who have wrote before you . For your modefty will not permit you to hope any thing more : nay , it is fo great , that I verily believe , you would check your genius in its career , if there was any ...
... fhew yourfelf at least equal to those who have wrote before you . For your modefty will not permit you to hope any thing more : nay , it is fo great , that I verily believe , you would check your genius in its career , if there was any ...
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Page 161 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 182 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 145 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 181 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 145 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 85 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 196 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 140 - ... and dangers of the air and the earth, there are perils by water and perils by fire. This...
Page 140 - ... and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourfelves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Page 148 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.