The Student: Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly MiscellanyChristopher Smart J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church Yard, London; J. Barrett in Oxford; and J. Merrill in Cambridge., 1751 - College students' writings, English |
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... ourselves unequal to the task of com- mending fuch a work up to its merits - where the diction is the most high - wrought imaginable , and yet , like the brilliancy of a diamond , exceeding perfpicuous in its richnefs - where the ...
... ourselves unequal to the task of com- mending fuch a work up to its merits - where the diction is the most high - wrought imaginable , and yet , like the brilliancy of a diamond , exceeding perfpicuous in its richnefs - where the ...
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... ourselves in prosperity and adverfity . The conteft was never finally determined , whether it was the greater bravery to moderate ourselves in plenty , or to bear up with conftancy under the preffure of want . The difpute , I think , is ...
... ourselves in prosperity and adverfity . The conteft was never finally determined , whether it was the greater bravery to moderate ourselves in plenty , or to bear up with conftancy under the preffure of want . The difpute , I think , is ...
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... ourselves , fafety , because a treacherous confidence blinds us to our danger . But when fortune fmiles , let us rouze up our circumfpecti- on . Our paffions then require a tight rein , least our acti- ons should hurry us into infolence ...
... ourselves , fafety , because a treacherous confidence blinds us to our danger . But when fortune fmiles , let us rouze up our circumfpecti- on . Our paffions then require a tight rein , least our acti- ons should hurry us into infolence ...
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... ourselves more and more difpofed to yield him that obedience in actions which our tongues confess to be his due . In every act of adora- tion , whether in our clofet or at his own house , we acknowledge him to be the creator , the ...
... ourselves more and more difpofed to yield him that obedience in actions which our tongues confess to be his due . In every act of adora- tion , whether in our clofet or at his own house , we acknowledge him to be the creator , the ...
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... ourselves in it , without his co - operation . All we do , all we poffefs and hold , is by and from him ; and as we know we cannot oblige the Deity to aid and affist us in our ftreights , the fense of such inability and dependence will ...
... ourselves in it , without his co - operation . All we do , all we poffefs and hold , is by and from him ; and as we know we cannot oblige the Deity to aid and affist us in our ftreights , the fense of such inability and dependence will ...
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Page 88 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 53 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 143 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 140 - Shew some token upon me for good, that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed : because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM 87. Fundamenta ejus. HER foundations are upon the holy hills : the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Page 366 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 99 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 138 - The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the the waters of Megiddo ; they took no gain of money.
Page 99 - Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty. 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Page 25 - Till generous Bacchus help'd to fan the Fire. Warm'd by two Gods at once, they drink and write, Rhyme all the Day, and fuddle all the Night. Homer, fays Horace, nods in many a Place, But hints, he nodded oftner o'er the Glafs.
Page 169 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...