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... thou removed hence , and cast into the bottom of the sea ; it can arrest the sun in the midst of his course , and send the swift- winged winds upon our errand ; and all those strange things , and secret decrees , and unrevealed ...
... thou removed hence , and cast into the bottom of the sea ; it can arrest the sun in the midst of his course , and send the swift- winged winds upon our errand ; and all those strange things , and secret decrees , and unrevealed ...
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... thou kept from drowning , from fracture of bones , from madness , from deformities , by the riches of the divine goodness ? Tell the joints of thy body , doest thou want a finger ? and if thou doest not understand how great a blessing ...
... thou kept from drowning , from fracture of bones , from madness , from deformities , by the riches of the divine goodness ? Tell the joints of thy body , doest thou want a finger ? and if thou doest not understand how great a blessing ...
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... thou give to be but as now thou art ? * LUKEWARMNESS AND ZEAL . He that is warm to - day and cold to - morrow , zealous in his resolution and weary in his prac- tices , fierce in the beginning , and slack and easy . in his progress ...
... thou give to be but as now thou art ? * LUKEWARMNESS AND ZEAL . He that is warm to - day and cold to - morrow , zealous in his resolution and weary in his prac- tices , fierce in the beginning , and slack and easy . in his progress ...
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... thou endure him one night ? * ON HOPE . HOPE is like the wing of an angel soaring up to heaven , and bears our prayers to the throne of God . * Liberty of Prophesying . THE HOPES OF MAN . As a worm creepeth with FROM BISHOP TAYLOR . 19.
... thou endure him one night ? * ON HOPE . HOPE is like the wing of an angel soaring up to heaven , and bears our prayers to the throne of God . * Liberty of Prophesying . THE HOPES OF MAN . As a worm creepeth with FROM BISHOP TAYLOR . 19.
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... thou- sand ways to fail and miss of those glories ; and though he hopes , yet he enjoys not ; he longs , but he possesses not , and must be content with his portion of dust ; and being a worm and no man , must die down in this portion ...
... thou- sand ways to fail and miss of those glories ; and though he hopes , yet he enjoys not ; he longs , but he possesses not , and must be content with his portion of dust ; and being a worm and no man , must die down in this portion ...
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actions affections Anatomy of Melancholy appetite Aristotle beasts beauty behold Bishop Bishop of Lincoln blessing body Caliph caprina charity Christ christian church cloud creatures death delight desire discourse divine doth duty earth Ecclesiastical Polity evil excellent eyes fancy father fear felicity fool friendship glory God's Goodwin sands grace grave hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour innocent Israel judgment king of Burgundy knowledge labour lady Ann Clifford laws learning light live look Lord Bacon love Thee,-when man's marriage memory mercy mind nature ness never noble noise observe passions peace perfect person piety pleasure poor prayers prosperity reason religion satiety says Serm Sermon servant shew sick Skipton sorrow soul spirit tempest thee thereof things thou thoughts tion tongue TROILUS AND CRESSIDA truth unto virtue weary wherein wisdom wise worthy
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Page 333 - Two voices are there; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice: In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty!
Page 299 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 338 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 286 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 270 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Page 153 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 290 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 312 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thoughts (though God accept them, yet) towards men are little better than good dreams except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 271 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 293 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...