An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language, Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises, Volume 2T. Wilson, 1808 - English language |
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... feel another's wo , To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show , That mercy show to me . This day be bread , and peace , my lot : All else beneath the sun ' Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not ; And let thy will be done ...
... feel another's wo , To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show , That mercy show to me . This day be bread , and peace , my lot : All else beneath the sun ' Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not ; And let thy will be done ...
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... feels , Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels . Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life , They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . What ...
... feels , Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels . Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life , They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . What ...
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... feeling mind . The enemies who we have most to fear , are those of our own hearts . Thou art the Messiah , the Son of God , who was to come into the world , and hast been so long pro- mised and desired . Thomas disposition is better ...
... feeling mind . The enemies who we have most to fear , are those of our own hearts . Thou art the Messiah , the Son of God , who was to come into the world , and hast been so long pro- mised and desired . Thomas disposition is better ...
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... , but has a lively and serious feeling of them . It is not the uttering , or the hearing certain words , that constitute the worship of the Almighty . It is the heart that praises , or prays . Promiscuous . 155 SYNTAX ,
... , but has a lively and serious feeling of them . It is not the uttering , or the hearing certain words , that constitute the worship of the Almighty . It is the heart that praises , or prays . Promiscuous . 155 SYNTAX ,
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... kindness , hath not been sufficiently grateful . No persons feel the distresses of others , so much . as them that have experienced distress themselves . SECTION 7 . CONSTANTINOPLE was the point , in which Promiscuous . 159 SYNTAX .
... kindness , hath not been sufficiently grateful . No persons feel the distresses of others , so much . as them that have experienced distress themselves . SECTION 7 . CONSTANTINOPLE was the point , in which Promiscuous . 159 SYNTAX .
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Page 410 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 409 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 189 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 412 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy. Through every period of my life, Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
Page 49 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 439 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 50 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 48 - All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas : And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others...
Page 47 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 206 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.