Resolves, Divine, Moral and PoliticalJohn Hatchard and son, 1820 - 454 páginas |
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Página vii
... gracious Sovereign ; virtues , which may have been the means of securing to this nation the favour of Heaven , amidst the alarm- ing convulsions of the earth . That your Royal Highness may long adorn that elevated rank DEDICATION . vii.
... gracious Sovereign ; virtues , which may have been the means of securing to this nation the favour of Heaven , amidst the alarm- ing convulsions of the earth . That your Royal Highness may long adorn that elevated rank DEDICATION . vii.
Página xi
... means of a licentious or immoral cast , are nevertheless offensive to the delicacy of modern refinement . Besides curtailing the chapters where this could be done without injury to the effect of the argument , or train of thought , the ...
... means of a licentious or immoral cast , are nevertheless offensive to the delicacy of modern refinement . Besides curtailing the chapters where this could be done without injury to the effect of the argument , or train of thought , the ...
Página xvi
... means an un- common one ; and I have endeavoured to learn of several who bear it , whether they were descended from our author Owen ; but I have not met with a single Felltham who could trace his lineage to that source or who set up any ...
... means an un- common one ; and I have endeavoured to learn of several who bear it , whether they were descended from our author Owen ; but I have not met with a single Felltham who could trace his lineage to that source or who set up any ...
Página xxi
... mean not on account of its scarceness , but its intrinsic worth . The greater part of this most pleasing and instructive little work , ( for with its " enlargements " it is a very small one , ) were , like Felltham's Resolves , written ...
... mean not on account of its scarceness , but its intrinsic worth . The greater part of this most pleasing and instructive little work , ( for with its " enlargements " it is a very small one , ) were , like Felltham's Resolves , written ...
Página xxiii
... means of true salutation ; -my libertie is " mine own : I can both frequent them , and desire " to profit by them . " In one of his letters , written at a much more advanced period of his life , he says , " I have lived " in such a ...
... means of true salutation ; -my libertie is " mine own : I can both frequent them , and desire " to profit by them . " In one of his letters , written at a much more advanced period of his life , he says , " I have lived " in such a ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 324 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Página 314 - This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent; " declaring thereby faith to be even the whole work of the evangelical law.
Página 323 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página lix - COME leave this saucy way Of baiting those that pay Dear for the sight of your declining wit: 'Tis known it is not fit, That a sale poet, just contempt once thrown, Should cry up thus his own. I wonder by what dower, Or patent, you had power From all to rape a judgment.
Página 267 - O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest: From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Página lvi - Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Página 313 - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Página 453 - The waving sea can with such flood, Bathe some high palace that hath stood Far from the main up in the river : Oh, think not then but love can do As much, for that's an ocean too That flows not every day, but ever.
Página 452 - Till night's black wings do overtake me, Thinking on thee, thy beauties then, As sudden lights do sleeping men, So they by their bright rays awake me. Thus absence dies, and dying proves No absence can subsist with loves That do partake of fair perfection ; Since in the darkest night they may By love's quick motion find a way To see each other by reflection. The waving sea can with each flood...
Página 50 - Tautologies. I see no reason that so high a Princess as Divinity is should be presented to the people in the sordid rags of the tongue ; nor that he which speaks from the Father of Languages should deliver his embassage in an ill one. A man can never speak too well while he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses are both tedious to the ear and difficult for their retaining. A Sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those Cart-rope speeches that are...