Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 páginas |
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Página 110
... present are While their grofs faults were avoided , you would not confider , how much there is in you that ought to be amended . We measure what is , in any way , com- mendable , by comparing our share of it with that of our neighbour ...
... present are While their grofs faults were avoided , you would not confider , how much there is in you that ought to be amended . We measure what is , in any way , com- mendable , by comparing our share of it with that of our neighbour ...
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... present existence , muft , if he acts agreeably to fuch a perfuafion , be wholly intent on the purfuit of that pleafure , and dread nothing more than its coming to an end , or being interrupted . Hence , if his term of life would be ...
... present existence , muft , if he acts agreeably to fuch a perfuafion , be wholly intent on the purfuit of that pleafure , and dread nothing more than its coming to an end , or being interrupted . Hence , if his term of life would be ...
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... present state and condi- tion ; Secondly , By the relation we bear to each other ; Thirdly , By that in which we ftand to wards the Deity . If we are raised above the brutes -- if we are undeniably of a more excellent kind , we must be ...
... present state and condi- tion ; Secondly , By the relation we bear to each other ; Thirdly , By that in which we ftand to wards the Deity . If we are raised above the brutes -- if we are undeniably of a more excellent kind , we must be ...
Página 169
... present ftate , will at length be our portion without any folicitude we need be at about it - with- out any qualifications we have to acquire in order to it - without any pains we are to take after it ? Nothing in Paganism or ...
... present ftate , will at length be our portion without any folicitude we need be at about it - with- out any qualifications we have to acquire in order to it - without any pains we are to take after it ? Nothing in Paganism or ...
Página 172
... present queftion ; but tends only to eftablish the fuperiority of chriftianity . The moral law , argues the apoftle , which claimed on the righteoufnefs of works , makes no provifion for the deficiencies of man . Chriftianity alone , by ...
... present queftion ; but tends only to eftablish the fuperiority of chriftianity . The moral law , argues the apoftle , which claimed on the righteoufnefs of works , makes no provifion for the deficiencies of man . Chriftianity alone , by ...
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Página 12 - 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.
Página 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Página 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Página 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Página 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Página 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Página 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Página 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Página 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...