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action affairs affection agens agreeable animal archos argument arisan body cause censure character circumstances color conduct countenance crime cuman danger declino defendo desire destitute dignity direct discourse disease disposition dispute distress divine DUCTILE duty earth eligo EUCHARIST event evil excess excited exemplum exertion expression faithless false fault favor fear feeling fixed force give grief happiness hapus hearm heart honor humor ideas inclination indolent ingenuus injury judgement kind knowledge labor light lively Lord's Supper manner marriage mase means ment mind moral motion move nature niggardly object offence one's opinion ordino pain particular passions perform pleasure possess principles punishment purpose racter reason reflecto religion secret sense solidus sorrow sound speak spirit strength talents temper thincan thought tillage tion truth utter violent virtue walg words writing
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Page 256 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 80 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 57 - So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.
Page 222 - LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Page 248 - O impotence of mind in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
Page 241 - He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more.
Page 49 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 258 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death
Page 159 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying ; Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 9 - At last the roused-up river pours along. Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes From the rude mountain and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads, Calm, sluggish, silent...