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Side 14
... able . More people go to the gibbet for want of early instruction , discipline , and correction , than from any incurable depravity of nature . Young years make their accounts only of the glist- ening show of beauty ; but grey heirs ...
... able . More people go to the gibbet for want of early instruction , discipline , and correction , than from any incurable depravity of nature . Young years make their accounts only of the glist- ening show of beauty ; but grey heirs ...
Side 33
... able to bear provocation , is an argument of great wisdom , and to forgive it , of a great mind . One unquiet , perverse disposition , distempers the peace and unity of a whole family or society , as one jarring instrument will spoil a ...
... able to bear provocation , is an argument of great wisdom , and to forgive it , of a great mind . One unquiet , perverse disposition , distempers the peace and unity of a whole family or society , as one jarring instrument will spoil a ...
Side 35
... able punctual . But there is a difference between a debt of revenge and every other debt . By paying our other debts , we are equal with all mankind ; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge , we are superior . Yet it must be confessed ...
... able punctual . But there is a difference between a debt of revenge and every other debt . By paying our other debts , we are equal with all mankind ; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge , we are superior . Yet it must be confessed ...
Side 58
... able condition , for few men want power to do mis- chief . Restrain yourself from being too fiery and flaming in matter of argument . Truth often suffers more from the heat of its defenders than from the argu- ments of its opposers ...
... able condition , for few men want power to do mis- chief . Restrain yourself from being too fiery and flaming in matter of argument . Truth often suffers more from the heat of its defenders than from the argu- ments of its opposers ...
Side 59
... them very fit for practice and action ; for though they are bad at counsel , they are admir- able at execution , when their heart is well directed . Zeno of all virtues made choice of silence , for 5 * GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS . 59 59.
... them very fit for practice and action ; for though they are bad at counsel , they are admir- able at execution , when their heart is well directed . Zeno of all virtues made choice of silence , for 5 * GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS . 59 59.
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Side 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Side 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Side 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Side 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Side 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Side 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Side 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.