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At this period , as well as during the remainder of his life , Fox had many dreams
and visions , and supposed himself to receive supernatural messages from
heaven . In his Journal he gives an account of a particular movement of his mind
in ...
At this period , as well as during the remainder of his life , Fox had many dreams
and visions , and supposed himself to receive supernatural messages from
heaven . In his Journal he gives an account of a particular movement of his mind
in ...
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Affront none , neither revenge the affronts that are done to you ; but forgive , and
you shall be forgiven of your heavenly Father . In making friends , consider well
first ; and when you are fixed , be true , not wavering by reports , nor deserting in
...
Affront none , neither revenge the affronts that are done to you ; but forgive , and
you shall be forgiven of your heavenly Father . In making friends , consider well
first ; and when you are fixed , be true , not wavering by reports , nor deserting in
...
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... may as well go about to lay heaven and hell together . Desire of Approbation . I
am much less regardful of the approbation of man , and set much lighter by
contempt or applause , than I did long ago . I am oft suspicions that this is not only
...
... may as well go about to lay heaven and hell together . Desire of Approbation . I
am much less regardful of the approbation of man , and set much lighter by
contempt or applause , than I did long ago . I am oft suspicions that this is not only
...
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... holy men , that are all for heaven , and pretend not much to subtilities , the
more I value and honour them . And when I have studied hard to understand
some abstruse admired book - as ' De Scientia Dei , ' ' De Providentia circa
Malum , ' .
... holy men , that are all for heaven , and pretend not much to subtilities , the
more I value and honour them . And when I have studied hard to understand
some abstruse admired book - as ' De Scientia Dei , ' ' De Providentia circa
Malum , ' .
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... is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land . Wherefore I have
not here , as others , to boast of noble blood , and of any high - born state ,
according to the flesh , though , all things considered , I magnify the heavenly
majesty ...
... is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land . Wherefore I have
not here , as others , to boast of noble blood , and of any high - born state ,
according to the flesh , though , all things considered , I magnify the heavenly
majesty ...
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Page 315 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 397 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Page 299 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 193 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 87 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 290 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 182 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! . Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's...
Page 283 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Page 395 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 194 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
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| Title | Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3 Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Robert Carruthers |
| Editor | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2006 |
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