Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, 第 1 巻1812 |
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... mind filled with the supremest veneration for its author . Who can contemplate without astonishment , the motion of a comet , running far beyond the orb of Saturn , endeavouring to escape into the pathless regions of unbounded space ...
... mind filled with the supremest veneration for its author . Who can contemplate without astonishment , the motion of a comet , running far beyond the orb of Saturn , endeavouring to escape into the pathless regions of unbounded space ...
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... mind perceives between the ideas of a work and a workman , an act and an agent , in any par- ticular case , or referred to an universal axiom , grounded on the observation of many individual cases in which it is exemplified . When a ...
... mind perceives between the ideas of a work and a workman , an act and an agent , in any par- ticular case , or referred to an universal axiom , grounded on the observation of many individual cases in which it is exemplified . When a ...
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... mind has of these relations , or ren- der their existence problematical . The most un- cultivated understanding must see , and the most ingenious sceptic will find it impossible , on any ground of solid argument , to deny , that every ...
... mind has of these relations , or ren- der their existence problematical . The most un- cultivated understanding must see , and the most ingenious sceptic will find it impossible , on any ground of solid argument , to deny , that every ...
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... minds , though not sceptical , are uninformed ; it may not be improper to select out of the variety of arguments , which evince this great truth , two or three of the most simple . We prove the being of a God , first from the creation ...
... minds , though not sceptical , are uninformed ; it may not be improper to select out of the variety of arguments , which evince this great truth , two or three of the most simple . We prove the being of a God , first from the creation ...
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... mind ; nor is it the misery of low circumstances , but of a guilty conscience . The things of this world are not , in their own nature , connected either with happiness or misery . At- tended sometimes by one , and sometimes by the ...
... mind ; nor is it the misery of low circumstances , but of a guilty conscience . The things of this world are not , in their own nature , connected either with happiness or misery . At- tended sometimes by one , and sometimes by the ...
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affections almighty ancient animal appears argument atheist authority behold believe blessed body cerning Christ Christian Christian religion Cicero consider creation creatures darkness death deism deist Deity devotion divine doctrine duty earth Epictetus eternity evidence evil facts father give glory gospel hand happiness hath heart heathen heaven holy human idolatry infinite Jesus Jews kind labour light living look Lord lord Bolingbroke mankind manner matter ment mercy mind miracles moral Moses nations natural religion ness never objects observe Old Testament passions perfect philosophers Plato pleasures Pontius Pilate Porphyry praise prayer present preserve principles proof prophet Providence racter reason revelation sacred Scripture sense Socrates son of Noah soul species spirit Stoics sublime suppose supreme tence testimony thee things thou thought tion truth ture universe unto virtue whole wisdom wise worship
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173 ページ - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
170 ページ - Thou makest darkness, and it is night : wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.
168 ページ - Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty: who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
9 ページ - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
42 ページ - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
162 ページ - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
283 ページ - Mirza, habitations worth contending for ? Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
171 ページ - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
162 ページ - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
281 ページ - ... that stood by them, to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and, in the midst of a speculation, stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles, that glittered in their eyes, and danced before them ; but often, when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed and down they sunk.