The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 sider |
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... Several moralifts have confidered the creation as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is filled with his prefence . Others have confidered infinite fpace as the receptacle , or ra- ther the habitation ...
... Several moralifts have confidered the creation as the temple of God , which he has built with his own hands , and which is filled with his prefence . Others have confidered infinite fpace as the receptacle , or ra- ther the habitation ...
Side 22
... several rocks , and immediately die upon their being fevered from the place where they grow . There are many other crea- tures but one remove from thefe , which have no other fense befides that of feeling and taste . Others have still ...
... several rocks , and immediately die upon their being fevered from the place where they grow . There are many other crea- tures but one remove from thefe , which have no other fense befides that of feeling and taste . Others have still ...
Side 26
... several kinds of fish ; others , of a nicer frame , find out pro- per beds to depofit them in , and there leave them ; as the ferpent , the crocodile , and oftrich others hatch their eggs and tend the birth , ' till it is able to fhift ...
... several kinds of fish ; others , of a nicer frame , find out pro- per beds to depofit them in , and there leave them ; as the ferpent , the crocodile , and oftrich others hatch their eggs and tend the birth , ' till it is able to fhift ...
Side 60
... several beau- tifully defigned pieces of landfkip and perspective , which are much more pleafing to a natural tafte than unknown faces or Dutch gambols , though done by the best mafters my couches , beds , and window - curtains are of ...
... several beau- tifully defigned pieces of landfkip and perspective , which are much more pleafing to a natural tafte than unknown faces or Dutch gambols , though done by the best mafters my couches , beds , and window - curtains are of ...
Side 125
... several remains of the former , which juftify the character given of him by the learned men of his own age . As for the latter , it is a known faying of his , that he was more obliged to Aristotle who had inftructed him , than to Philip ...
... several remains of the former , which juftify the character given of him by the learned men of his own age . As for the latter , it is a known faying of his , that he was more obliged to Aristotle who had inftructed him , than to Philip ...
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Side 127 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Side 344 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Side 168 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Side 13 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Side 127 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Side 346 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 344 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Side 346 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Side 344 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.