New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Volume 1C. and C. Whittingham; Published by Carpenter and son, 1827 - Classical poetry |
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... infinite ability to effect , with a thought only , what shall always be for the greatest advantage , he must be originally and essentially , immutably , and for ever good . Holy Scripture , as if beauty and goodness were synonymous ...
... infinite ability to effect , with a thought only , what shall always be for the greatest advantage , he must be originally and essentially , immutably , and for ever good . Holy Scripture , as if beauty and goodness were synonymous ...
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... of creatures , how many different humours , how many different wills , what blind and impetuous passions , what per- verse and froward dispositions , what an infinite variety of RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 11.
... of creatures , how many different humours , how many different wills , what blind and impetuous passions , what per- verse and froward dispositions , what an infinite variety of RELIGIOUS , MORAL , AND PRECEPTIVE . 11.
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... infinite variety of objects to be attended to , and accom- modated one unto another ! He who can recon- cile , and control , and regulate ; he who , through all apparent disorders , can maintain the harmony of the world ; he who ...
... infinite variety of objects to be attended to , and accom- modated one unto another ! He who can recon- cile , and control , and regulate ; he who , through all apparent disorders , can maintain the harmony of the world ; he who ...
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... infinite series of causes , the things that ever shall be , as though they now are ; ordaining events appa- rently the most casual and fortuitous , and direct- ing every contingency in human affairs . No cir- cumstance too small , no ...
... infinite series of causes , the things that ever shall be , as though they now are ; ordaining events appa- rently the most casual and fortuitous , and direct- ing every contingency in human affairs . No cir- cumstance too small , no ...
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... infinite , because they are unlimited on all sides . Yet the contem plation of a nature so exalted , however surely we arrive at the proof of its exist- ence , overwhelms our faculties . The mind feels its powers sink under the subject ...
... infinite , because they are unlimited on all sides . Yet the contem plation of a nature so exalted , however surely we arrive at the proof of its exist- ence , overwhelms our faculties . The mind feels its powers sink under the subject ...
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Page 148 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truths which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 147 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 103 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Page 73 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 265 - ... us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had ' not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere...
Page 149 - Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet...
Page 148 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 34 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 261 - ... groves of spices. He sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring ; all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Page 266 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.