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... beauty in this effay be uncommonly tranfcen- dent and peculiar , it is brevity of diction which , in a few inftances have occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fenfe , how much thinking , * Poesie du ftile , a ...
... beauty in this effay be uncommonly tranfcen- dent and peculiar , it is brevity of diction which , in a few inftances have occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fenfe , how much thinking , * Poesie du ftile , a ...
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... beauty ; that it is not ftrange that we ' fhould not be able to difcover perfection and order in every inftance , becaufe , in an infinity of things mutu- ally relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . In ...
... beauty ; that it is not ftrange that we ' fhould not be able to difcover perfection and order in every inftance , becaufe , in an infinity of things mutu- ally relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . In ...
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... beauty . Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds vend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the loweft bed , Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty ...
... beauty . Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds vend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the loweft bed , Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky ; Amid the mighty ...
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... beauty of the human figure is moft confpicuous is in the fou- thern parts of the country , which are bleffed with a still more favourable fun ; there it is , amongst the fishermen and failors , who work half naked on the fea fhore ...
... beauty of the human figure is moft confpicuous is in the fou- thern parts of the country , which are bleffed with a still more favourable fun ; there it is , amongst the fishermen and failors , who work half naked on the fea fhore ...
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... beauty feems not to have been quite fo univerfal there , Cotta telling us he met with few very beautiful Athenians , the moft beautiful Greek blood , efpecially for colour , was to be found in lonia . This is attefted both by Lucian and ...
... beauty feems not to have been quite fo univerfal there , Cotta telling us he met with few very beautiful Athenians , the moft beautiful Greek blood , efpecially for colour , was to be found in lonia . This is attefted both by Lucian and ...
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Page 347 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 346 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 348 - of every creature : for by him were all " things created that are in heaven, and " that are in earth, vifible and invifible, " whether they be thrones, or dominions, " or principalities, or powers ; all things " were created by him and for him...
Page 88 - Surely it is no narrow and niggardly encomium to say he is the great Poet of Reason, the first of ethical authors in verse. And this species of writing is, after all, the surest road to an extensive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men than the higher flights of more genuine poetry.
Page 16 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro...
Page 348 - And whofoever was not found written in the book of life was caft into the lake of fire.
Page 347 - Father, who raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principalities and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church...
Page 87 - ... many proofs of this talent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire French models; he studied Boileau attentively, formed himself upon him as Milton formed himself upon the Grecian and Italian sons of fancy.
Page 348 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard I, faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.