Meditations and Contemplations: In Two Volumes. ... By James Hervey, ...John and James Rivington, 1753 |
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Page vi
... Himself in the Law of the LORD . From hence He fetched his Maxims of Wisdom , and form- ed his Judgment of Things . The facred * Josh . xxiv . 27 . Precepts , Precepts , were the Model of his Tempers , and vi DEDICATION .
... Himself in the Law of the LORD . From hence He fetched his Maxims of Wisdom , and form- ed his Judgment of Things . The facred * Josh . xxiv . 27 . Precepts , Precepts , were the Model of his Tempers , and vi DEDICATION .
Page xvi
... Wisdom , and whom Nature charm , To steal themselves from the degen'rate Croud , And foar above this little Scene of Things ; To tread low - thoughted Vice beneath their Feet ; To footh the throbbing Paffions into Peace ; And woo lone ...
... Wisdom , and whom Nature charm , To steal themselves from the degen'rate Croud , And foar above this little Scene of Things ; To tread low - thoughted Vice beneath their Feet ; To footh the throbbing Paffions into Peace ; And woo lone ...
Page xix
... CONTEMPLATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε NIGH T. Night is fair Virtue's immemorial Friend : The confcious Moon , through ev'ry diftant Age , Has held a Lamp to Wisdom . Night - Thoughts , No V. CONTEMPLATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗΕ NIGHT . HE Business of the Day.
... CONTEMPLATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε NIGH T. Night is fair Virtue's immemorial Friend : The confcious Moon , through ev'ry diftant Age , Has held a Lamp to Wisdom . Night - Thoughts , No V. CONTEMPLATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗΕ NIGHT . HE Business of the Day.
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... Wisdom , or the Service of Virtue . How is the Day gone , almost as soon as it dawned ! --- The filent Moments flip away infenfibly . No Thief steals more unperceived from the pillaged Houfe . Where - ever we are , however employed ...
... Wisdom , or the Service of Virtue . How is the Day gone , almost as soon as it dawned ! --- The filent Moments flip away infenfibly . No Thief steals more unperceived from the pillaged Houfe . Where - ever we are , however employed ...
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... Wisdom to take the Alarm ; and to be all Trepidation , where there is nothing really terrible ! ---- Do Thou , my Soul , remember thy Saviour's Admonition ; " I will fore- " warn you , whom you fhall fear . Fear " not these imaginary ...
... Wisdom to take the Alarm ; and to be all Trepidation , where there is nothing really terrible ! ---- Do Thou , my Soul , remember thy Saviour's Admonition ; " I will fore- " warn you , whom you fhall fear . Fear " not these imaginary ...
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