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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... tempers seem to be cast in a softer mould , and whose senses are accustomed to more delicate and more beautiful prospects of nature , the characters of their gods wear a lovelier aspect . The same propensity in the 44 P. I. ELEGANT ...
... tempers seem to be cast in a softer mould , and whose senses are accustomed to more delicate and more beautiful prospects of nature , the characters of their gods wear a lovelier aspect . The same propensity in the 44 P. I. ELEGANT ...
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... temper , the spirit , the same dispositions , on all its real professors . The act , the performance , must depend on cir- cumstances which do not depend on us . The power of doing good is withheld from many , from whom , however , the ...
... temper , the spirit , the same dispositions , on all its real professors . The act , the performance , must depend on cir- cumstances which do not depend on us . The power of doing good is withheld from many , from whom , however , the ...
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... temper , in fervent desires , in holy endeavours , consist the very essence of Christian duty . Nor must we fondly attach ourselves to the practice of some particular virtue , or value our- selves exclusively on some favourite quality ...
... temper , in fervent desires , in holy endeavours , consist the very essence of Christian duty . Nor must we fondly attach ourselves to the practice of some particular virtue , or value our- selves exclusively on some favourite quality ...
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... temper of the world would suppose it to admit . Though it may , in a degree , lead to repe- tition , I will submit the difference in a word . Never to appear in society , but with a view to improvement and edification ; never to keep up ...
... temper of the world would suppose it to admit . Though it may , in a degree , lead to repe- tition , I will submit the difference in a word . Never to appear in society , but with a view to improvement and edification ; never to keep up ...
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... temper would spare . An abhorrence against what is criminal is so fair a plea for this , and looks so like virtue in the face , that in a sermon against rash judgment , it would be unseasonable to call it in question , -and yet , I ...
... temper would spare . An abhorrence against what is criminal is so fair a plea for this , and looks so like virtue in the face , that in a sermon against rash judgment , it would be unseasonable to call it in question , -and yet , I ...
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Page 146 - 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 102 - 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 72 - 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 33 - 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 - ... and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Page 147 - 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 261 - ... 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 247 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Page 148 - 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 127 - ... insecurity which make the protection of the Almighty so dear to us, and bring with such emphasis to every pious bosom the holy lessons of humility and gratitude. The God who sitteth above, and presides in high authority over all worlds, is mindful of man ; and though at this moment his energy is felt in the remotest provinces of creation, we may feel the same security in his providence, as if we were the objects of his undivided care. It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious...