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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... less society , yea , even of a family ; what wis- dom then is not needful to him who undertakes the government of the world ! What wisdom must he not possess who maintains the good government thereof , uninterrupted and uncon- trolled ...
... less society , yea , even of a family ; what wis- dom then is not needful to him who undertakes the government of the world ! What wisdom must he not possess who maintains the good government thereof , uninterrupted and uncon- trolled ...
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... less and others much larger than the earth , revolving with inconceivable rapidity round the sun , as their common centre , at distances so great that , though they may be expressed in numbers , they far exceed the utmost stretch of the ...
... less and others much larger than the earth , revolving with inconceivable rapidity round the sun , as their common centre , at distances so great that , though they may be expressed in numbers , they far exceed the utmost stretch of the ...
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... less remarkable , as well as a proof no less decisive of the doctrine I have been endeavouring to establish , that , on the discovery of the new world , the same astonishing phenomenon presented itself , that we have just been noticing ...
... less remarkable , as well as a proof no less decisive of the doctrine I have been endeavouring to establish , that , on the discovery of the new world , the same astonishing phenomenon presented itself , that we have just been noticing ...
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... less are they able to purify the polluted recesses of a vitiated heart , to curb the irregu- larity of appetite , or restrain the impetuosity of passion in common men . If you order us to examine the works of Grotius , of Puffendorff ...
... less are they able to purify the polluted recesses of a vitiated heart , to curb the irregu- larity of appetite , or restrain the impetuosity of passion in common men . If you order us to examine the works of Grotius , of Puffendorff ...
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... less confused , or less unquiet , than those by which superstition is annoyed . Superstition stands aghast at the punishments reserved for wicked men in another state ; but atheism cannot disprove the possibility of such a state to all ...
... less confused , or less unquiet , than those by which superstition is annoyed . Superstition stands aghast at the punishments reserved for wicked men in another state ; but atheism cannot disprove the possibility of such a state to all ...
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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...