Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, 第 2 巻John Ronalds, 1805 |
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... vanity , or promote their in- terest . There is reason to suspect that this may , in some instances , be true , but not in all ; and while so much good is produced , it is narrow and invidious to derogate from the promoters of it , by ...
... vanity , or promote their in- terest . There is reason to suspect that this may , in some instances , be true , but not in all ; and while so much good is produced , it is narrow and invidious to derogate from the promoters of it , by ...
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... vanity . He is an old beau , sportsman , gamester , and bottle companion ; but his infirmities often prevent him from acting in these charac- ters ; and when on a good day ( as he calls it , whenever he is tolerably well ) he attempts ...
... vanity . He is an old beau , sportsman , gamester , and bottle companion ; but his infirmities often prevent him from acting in these charac- ters ; and when on a good day ( as he calls it , whenever he is tolerably well ) he attempts ...
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... Vanity indeed operates with so violent a force , on some minds , that it seems to contradict itself , and de- feat its own purpose : for , in pursuit of notice and dis- tinction , it will even industriously seek disgrace . As the desire ...
... Vanity indeed operates with so violent a force , on some minds , that it seems to contradict itself , and de- feat its own purpose : for , in pursuit of notice and dis- tinction , it will even industriously seek disgrace . As the desire ...
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... vanity , the property of those who , in the course of their honest callings , have given us confidence , and en- trusted us with what was necessary to our subsistence , or what we considered as conducive to our pleasure and prosperity ...
... vanity , the property of those who , in the course of their honest callings , have given us confidence , and en- trusted us with what was necessary to our subsistence , or what we considered as conducive to our pleasure and prosperity ...
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... vanity . They may certainly amuse themselves with several of these things , and at the same time be very worthy men ; but yet as these things have an appearance of levi- ty , and lead them to associate with loose and profligate ...
... vanity . They may certainly amuse themselves with several of these things , and at the same time be very worthy men ; but yet as these things have an appearance of levi- ty , and lead them to associate with loose and profligate ...
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128 ページ - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.
209 ページ - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
209 ページ - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
208 ページ - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom : but they could not. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
28 ページ - They will either teach you so to regulate your conduct as to be able to set the most malicious inquiries at defiance ; or, if that be a lost hope, they will teach you prudence enough not to attract the public attention to a character which will only pass without censure when it passes without observation.
131 ページ - All the Books of the Bible are either already most admirable, and exalted pieces of Poesie, or are the best Materials in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; None but a good Artist will know how to do it : neither must we think to cut and polish Diamonds with so little pains and skill as we do Marble. For if any man design to compose a Sacred Poem, by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter,...
84 ページ - Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present...
273 ページ - For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
128 ページ - A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, And the plague shall never depart from his house...
132 ページ - The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.