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... Common- wealth . I need not make any other a- pology for my converfing with the Mufes ; for I do not think it an employment beneath the cha- racter of a scholar ; and though I have , in a manner , now let up my outmoft pillar , yet I ...
... Common- wealth . I need not make any other a- pology for my converfing with the Mufes ; for I do not think it an employment beneath the cha- racter of a scholar ; and though I have , in a manner , now let up my outmoft pillar , yet I ...
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... common fluces of the eyes To vent his mighty Paffion won't fuffice , His tortured body weeps all o'er , And out of every pore Buds forth a precious gem of purple gore . How ftrange the power of afflictions rod When in the hand of an ...
... common fluces of the eyes To vent his mighty Paffion won't fuffice , His tortured body weeps all o'er , And out of every pore Buds forth a precious gem of purple gore . How ftrange the power of afflictions rod When in the hand of an ...
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... common ground . III . Why are the greatest bleffings fent in vain , Which must be loft with greater pain ? Or why do we fondly admire The greateft good which life can boast When fate will have the blifs expire , Like life , with painful ...
... common ground . III . Why are the greatest bleffings fent in vain , Which must be loft with greater pain ? Or why do we fondly admire The greateft good which life can boast When fate will have the blifs expire , Like life , with painful ...
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... common fenfe , Rais'd to diviner excellence ; But when at higheft pitch , his foul out - flies , Not reafon's bounds , but thofe of vulgar eyes . II . So when the myftick Sibyl's facred breaft Was with divine infufions poffeft , ' Twas ...
... common fenfe , Rais'd to diviner excellence ; But when at higheft pitch , his foul out - flies , Not reafon's bounds , but thofe of vulgar eyes . II . So when the myftick Sibyl's facred breaft Was with divine infufions poffeft , ' Twas ...
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... common their ill influence . Let none be rich , and poverty Would not be thought fo great a mifery . Our difcontent is from comparifon ; [ own . Were better states unfeen , each man would like his III . Should III . ' Should partial ...
... common their ill influence . Let none be rich , and poverty Would not be thought fo great a mifery . Our difcontent is from comparifon ; [ own . Were better states unfeen , each man would like his III . Should III . ' Should partial ...
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Page 126 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not ; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 73 - tis thy sentence I should part With the most precious treasure of my heart, I freely that and more resign ; My heart itself, as its delight, is thine ; My little all I give to thee — Thou gav'st a greater gift, thy Son, to me. He left true bliss and joys...
Page 35 - But see, to what new region am I come ? I know it well, it is my native home. Here led I once a life divine, Which did all good — no evil — know : Ah ! who would such sweet bliss resign For those vain shows which fools admire below ? Tis true ; but don't of folly past complain, But joy to see these blest abodes again. A good retrieve. But, lo ! while thus I speak, With piercing rays th...
Page 278 - ... of seraphic love. He that has only the former is, like Moses, with much difficulty climbing up to the Holy Mount ; but he that has the latter, is like the same person conversing with God on the serene top of it, and shining with rays of anticipated glory. This is the last stage of human perfection, the utmost height of the ladder whereby we ascend to heaven; one step higher, is glory. " Here then, continues he, I will build my tabernacle...
Page 120 - God is always present ; and the folly of doing what must be repented of, and of going to hell, when a man may go to heaven. In a word, that knows how to distinguish between a moment and eternity. Nothing is more ridiculous, than to be Serious about trifles, and to be trifling about serious matters.
Page 106 - And this is for the moft part the thinking man's condition. He does not only Habitually know, but actually attends both to his Duty, and to all the engagements for its performance.
Page 280 - ... will have to be not only intellectual, but passionate ; the motion of the will -being accompanied with a sensible commotion of the spirits, and an estuation of the blood : and animadverting on an argument against this opinion, it is not, says he, all the sophistry of the cold logicians that shall work me out of the belief of what I feel and know, and rob me of the sweetest entertainment of my life, the passionate love of God ; whatever some men may pretend, who are strangers to all the affectionate...
Page 140 - Omnifcient, but that in a word 'dsendow'd with all poffible perfection. For to have, and it felf to be all the Eflences and Habitudes of things is to have and to be all that can...
Page 49 - tis not he whose busy pate Can dive into the deep intrigues of state ; That can the great leviathan control, Manage and rule't, as if he were its soul : The wisest king thus gifted was, And yet did not in these true wisdom place. Who then is by the wise man meant ? He that can want all this, and yet can be content. THE IMPATIENT.