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Page vi
... lefs compafs , and are likely to ftrain our voice before we have done . We fhall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a per- fon speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... lefs compafs , and are likely to ftrain our voice before we have done . We fhall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a per- fon speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
Page x
... lefs degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly fome variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitra- ry , depending on the caprice of readers . The As emphasis often falls ...
... lefs degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly fome variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitra- ry , depending on the caprice of readers . The As emphasis often falls ...
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... lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man profperous , who is raised to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What ...
... lefs qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man profperous , who is raised to a fituation which flatters his paffions , but which corrupts his principles , diforders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What ...
Page 31
... lefs . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire fituations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , paffions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities ) -I ...
... lefs . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire fituations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , paffions , notions , as well as their perfons , fortunes , and dignities ) -I ...
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... lefs , it could not answer the purpose of falutary difcipline . Unfatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are ftill too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then muft the confequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
... lefs , it could not answer the purpose of falutary difcipline . Unfatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are ftill too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then muft the confequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
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Popular passages
Page 229 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 241 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 211 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Page 190 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 255 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Page 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...