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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... ground , and we could be so whimsically partial to ourselves as to conceit that we were of this select number ; yet there could be no security of happiness , not even to this little flock . He that chose them by chance , might as ...
... ground , and we could be so whimsically partial to ourselves as to conceit that we were of this select number ; yet there could be no security of happiness , not even to this little flock . He that chose them by chance , might as ...
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... grounds , that those sparkling gems which deck the robe of night are not placed in the heavens merely for the ... ground than mere conjecture for thinking that suns and worlds are extending through the immense re- gions of space ...
... grounds , that those sparkling gems which deck the robe of night are not placed in the heavens merely for the ... ground than mere conjecture for thinking that suns and worlds are extending through the immense re- gions of space ...
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... ground ; but now entrenched and rendered inaccessible by the strongest bulwarks of civil power ; yet against all these obstacles Christianity struggled , and completely triumphed . It overturned the temples and altars of the gods ; it ...
... ground ; but now entrenched and rendered inaccessible by the strongest bulwarks of civil power ; yet against all these obstacles Christianity struggled , and completely triumphed . It overturned the temples and altars of the gods ; it ...
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... ground " of Scrip- ture ; the other lay their foundation in the sand , instead of resting it on the rock of ages . Thus the superstructure of both is equally unsound . God is the fountain from which all the streams of goodness flow ...
... ground " of Scrip- ture ; the other lay their foundation in the sand , instead of resting it on the rock of ages . Thus the superstructure of both is equally unsound . God is the fountain from which all the streams of goodness flow ...
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... ground , or perhaps sleeps not at all ; and at the dawn of day resumes his labour . At length , he is so unfortunate as to find his enemy . He braves death , amid all the horrors of the field . He sees his companions fall around him ...
... ground , or perhaps sleeps not at all ; and at the dawn of day resumes his labour . At length , he is so unfortunate as to find his enemy . He braves death , amid all the horrors of the field . He sees his companions fall around him ...
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Page 153 - 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 153 - 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. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Page 109 - 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 79 - 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 155 - 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 156 - Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Page 40 - 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 154 - 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 270 - ... wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained...
Page 56 - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our' senses to be so many sores and pains to us...