The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1837 - English literature |
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... desire of being imme- diately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a style which an ancient critic would have deemed purposely invented for persons troubled with the asthma to read , and for those to ...
... desire of being imme- diately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a style which an ancient critic would have deemed purposely invented for persons troubled with the asthma to read , and for those to ...
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... desires to see The face of God , in his religion must Sincere , entire , constant , and humble be . Having mentioned the name of Herbert , that model of a man , a gentleman , and a clergyman , let me add , that the quaintness of some of ...
... desires to see The face of God , in his religion must Sincere , entire , constant , and humble be . Having mentioned the name of Herbert , that model of a man , a gentleman , and a clergyman , let me add , that the quaintness of some of ...
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... desires will turn the pages of Cato , not to say , Scripture itself , into occasions and excitements of wan- ton imaginations . There is no wind but fans a volcano , no work but feeds a combustible mind . the I am well aware , that ...
... desires will turn the pages of Cato , not to say , Scripture itself , into occasions and excitements of wan- ton imaginations . There is no wind but fans a volcano , no work but feeds a combustible mind . the I am well aware , that ...
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... desire of arriv- ing at the end without the effort of thought and will , which are the appointed means . Let us look backward three or four centuries . Then , as now , the great mass of mankind were governed by the three main wishes ...
... desire of arriv- ing at the end without the effort of thought and will , which are the appointed means . Let us look backward three or four centuries . Then , as now , the great mass of mankind were governed by the three main wishes ...
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... desires ? -We are ashamed of expecting the end without the means ? -In order to answer these questions in the affirmative , I must have forgotten the animal magnetists ; * the proselytes of Brothers , and of Joanna South- cote ; and ...
... desires ? -We are ashamed of expecting the end without the means ? -In order to answer these questions in the affirmative , I must have forgotten the animal magnetists ; * the proselytes of Brothers , and of Joanna South- cote ; and ...
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Page 260 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 98 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 83 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Page 6 - 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 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 98 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 45 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 98 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Page 128 - He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy GOD...
Page 84 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.