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... rendered more affect- ing , by a certain Air of Solemnity peculiar to Places of this kind I took particular Notice of a handfome Altar - piece , prefented by the Mafter - Builders of Stow , out of * The Name of a noble Seat , erected in ...
... rendered more affect- ing , by a certain Air of Solemnity peculiar to Places of this kind I took particular Notice of a handfome Altar - piece , prefented by the Mafter - Builders of Stow , out of * The Name of a noble Seat , erected in ...
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... ; especially the celebrated Schul- tens . Though I cannot but give the Preference to the Opinion of a judicious Friend , who would render the Paffage PERHAPS , the nuptial Foys were all he thought on among the T O M B S. 21.
... ; especially the celebrated Schul- tens . Though I cannot but give the Preference to the Opinion of a judicious Friend , who would render the Paffage PERHAPS , the nuptial Foys were all he thought on among the T O M B S. 21.
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... render our folemn Affemblies more venerable and aw- ful . For when we walk over the Duft of our Friends , or kneel upon the Ashes of our Relations , this awaken- ing Circumftance muft ftrike a lively Impreffion of our own Mortality ...
... render our folemn Affemblies more venerable and aw- ful . For when we walk over the Duft of our Friends , or kneel upon the Ashes of our Relations , this awaken- ing Circumftance muft ftrike a lively Impreffion of our own Mortality ...
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... render it a kind of hap py Impropriety , to call it Dying . Dying ! No , ' tis Then they truly begin to live : Their Exit is the End of their Frailty , and their Entrance upon Perfection : Their last Groan is the Prelude to Life and ...
... render it a kind of hap py Impropriety , to call it Dying . Dying ! No , ' tis Then they truly begin to live : Their Exit is the End of their Frailty , and their Entrance upon Perfection : Their last Groan is the Prelude to Life and ...
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... render it of none Effect with regard to yourselves . Think not , that IMMANUEL will want Believers , or Heaven Inhabitants , because You continue incorrigible . No ; the Lamb that was flain , will " fee of the Tra- " vail of his Soul ...
... render it of none Effect with regard to yourselves . Think not , that IMMANUEL will want Believers , or Heaven Inhabitants , because You continue incorrigible . No ; the Lamb that was flain , will " fee of the Tra- " vail of his Soul ...
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Page 5 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Page 25 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 51 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 67 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 77 - To consider further this double end in the works of Nature, and how they are at the same time both useful and entertaining, we find that the most important parts in the vegetable world are those which are the most beautiful.
Page 74 - So much of eternity is gone;" for when millions of centuries are elapsed, it is but just commencing; and, when millions more have run their ample round, it will be no nearer ending. Yea, when ages, numerous as the bloom of spring, increased by the herbage of summer, both augmented by the leaves of autumn, and all multiplied by the drops of rain which drown the winter — when these, and ten thousand times ten thousand more...
Page 15 - Name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 55 - In a grove of tulips, or a knot of pinks, one perceives a difference in almost every individual. Scarce any two are turned and tinctured exactly alike. Each allows himself a little particularity in his dress, though all belong to one family : so that they are various, and yet the same.
Page 45 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
Page 14 - Tis written, indeed, of its suffering Saviour, that when He had tasted the vinegar mingled with gall, He would not drink. And did our new-come stranger begin to sip the cup of life : but, perceiving the bitterness, turn away its head, and refuse the draught ? Was this the cause, why the wary babe only opened its eyes : just looked on the light : and then withdrew into the more inviting regions of undisturbed repose?