The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 21801 |
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Page 105
... please , when we are confcious of the power , or fhew more cruelty than to chufe any kind of influence before that of kind- nefs . He that regards the welfare of others , ' fhould make his virtue approachable , that it may be loved and ...
... please , when we are confcious of the power , or fhew more cruelty than to chufe any kind of influence before that of kind- nefs . He that regards the welfare of others , ' fhould make his virtue approachable , that it may be loved and ...
Page 114
... please ourselves with fancying that we fuffer by neglect , unkind- nefs , or any evil which admits a remedy , rather than by the decays of nature , which cannot be prevented or repaired . We therefore revenge our pains upon thofe on ...
... please ourselves with fancying that we fuffer by neglect , unkind- nefs , or any evil which admits a remedy , rather than by the decays of nature , which cannot be prevented or repaired . We therefore revenge our pains upon thofe on ...
Page 115
... please , they do not readily depart from their own inclinations ; their fingularities therefore are only blameable , when they have imprudently or morofely withdrawn themselves from the world ; but there are others , who have , without ...
... please , they do not readily depart from their own inclinations ; their fingularities therefore are only blameable , when they have imprudently or morofely withdrawn themselves from the world ; but there are others , who have , without ...
Page 117
... please themfelves too much with futurities , and to fret because those expectations are difappointed , which fhould never have been formed . Knowledge and genius are often enemies to quiet , by fuggesting ideas of excellence , which men ...
... please themfelves too much with futurities , and to fret because those expectations are difappointed , which fhould never have been formed . Knowledge and genius are often enemies to quiet , by fuggesting ideas of excellence , which men ...
Page 126
... please themselves with obferving , that they have numbers on their fide ; and that though they are hunted out from the fo- ciety of good men , they are not likely to be con- demned to folitude . It may be obferved , perhaps without ...
... please themselves with obferving , that they have numbers on their fide ; and that though they are hunted out from the fo- ciety of good men , they are not likely to be con- demned to folitude . It may be obferved , perhaps without ...
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Page 197 - God made thee of choice his own, and of his own To serve him; thy reward was of his grace; Thy punishment then justly is at his will. Be...
Page 208 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
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Page 36 - There are many invisible circumstances which, whether we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge, whether we intend to enlarge our science, or increase our virtue, are more important than publick occurrences.
Page 184 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 89 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper, and where he finds only new gradations of anguish and precipices of horror.
Page 65 - ... that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Page 236 - Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy: I fled and cried out "Death;" Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded "Death.
Page 21 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Page 64 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.