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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Side 17
... feldom happens ) that a courfe of virtue makes us miferable in this life : but if we fuppofe ( as it generally happens ) that virtue will make us more happy even in this life than a contrary courfe of vice ; how can we fufficiently ...
... feldom happens ) that a courfe of virtue makes us miferable in this life : but if we fuppofe ( as it generally happens ) that virtue will make us more happy even in this life than a contrary courfe of vice ; how can we fufficiently ...
Side 41
... feldom confidered as extend- ing beyond our own fpecies ; and no man is thought to become vicious , by facrificing the life of an animal to the pleasure of hitting a mark . It is , however , cer- tain , that by this act more happiness ...
... feldom confidered as extend- ing beyond our own fpecies ; and no man is thought to become vicious , by facrificing the life of an animal to the pleasure of hitting a mark . It is , however , cer- tain , that by this act more happiness ...
Side 72
... feldom negligently or implicitly received ; fufpicion is always watchful over the practices of intereft ; and whatever the hope of gain , or defire of mischief , can prompt one man to affert , another is by reafons equally cogent ...
... feldom negligently or implicitly received ; fufpicion is always watchful over the practices of intereft ; and whatever the hope of gain , or defire of mischief , can prompt one man to affert , another is by reafons equally cogent ...
Side 97
... feldom difappointed ; he who endeavours to arrive at a certain point , which he per- ceives himself perpetually to approach , enjoys all the happiness which nature has allotted to thofe hours , that are not spent in the immediate ...
... feldom difappointed ; he who endeavours to arrive at a certain point , which he per- ceives himself perpetually to approach , enjoys all the happiness which nature has allotted to thofe hours , that are not spent in the immediate ...
Side 117
... feldom been found to intrude upon the chearfulness , fimplicity and inno- cence of children ; they gaze at a funeral proceffion with as much vacant curiofity as at any other fhew , and fe fee the world change before them without the ...
... feldom been found to intrude upon the chearfulness , fimplicity and inno- cence of children ; they gaze at a funeral proceffion with as much vacant curiofity as at any other fhew , and fe fee the world change before them without the ...
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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.