New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 1C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... honour there where only it is due . Ascribe , how justly ! For once admit what near six thousand years ' experience has well confirmed that forming a proper receptacle for the creatures he meant to place in it , and succes- sive ...
... honour there where only it is due . Ascribe , how justly ! For once admit what near six thousand years ' experience has well confirmed that forming a proper receptacle for the creatures he meant to place in it , and succes- sive ...
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... Honour has defied death ; love has despised it ; shame has rushed upon it ; revenge has disregarded it ; grief a thousand times has wished for its approach . Is it not strange that reason and virtue cannot give you strength to surmount ...
... Honour has defied death ; love has despised it ; shame has rushed upon it ; revenge has disregarded it ; grief a thousand times has wished for its approach . Is it not strange that reason and virtue cannot give you strength to surmount ...
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... honour their parents , be- cause all parents would be virtuous ; all parents would love their children , because all children would be obedient . The grief which we natu . rally feel at the death of those that are dear to us , could not ...
... honour their parents , be- cause all parents would be virtuous ; all parents would love their children , because all children would be obedient . The grief which we natu . rally feel at the death of those that are dear to us , could not ...
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... honour , a young man of family and fortune , accustomed to the gratifications of the table , and a life of ease and voluptuousness , quits every valuable and tender connection at home , and submits at once to all the painful duties and ...
... honour , a young man of family and fortune , accustomed to the gratifications of the table , and a life of ease and voluptuousness , quits every valuable and tender connection at home , and submits at once to all the painful duties and ...
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... honour , power , fill his mind with bril- liant images . They are present , they are cer- tain , they are tangible ; they assume form and bulk . In these , therefore , he cannot be mistaken ; in the others he may . The eagerness of ...
... honour , power , fill his mind with bril- liant images . They are present , they are cer- tain , they are tangible ; they assume form and bulk . In these , therefore , he cannot be mistaken ; in the others he may . The eagerness of ...
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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 138 - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
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 264 - ... obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over—
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.
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 262 - ... side, or the fruits that hung upon the branches. At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with water-falls.
Page 149 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 128 - It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency. But, such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest...