The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining: abridged from the larger volume: intended to assist in introducing scholars at classical and other schools, to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge..Messrs. Rivingtons, Longman, 1792 - 456 oldal |
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... fame time to fhew , that as he is prefent to every thing , he cannot but be at- tentive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its exiftence : or , in other words , that his omniscience and omni- prefence are co ...
... fame time to fhew , that as he is prefent to every thing , he cannot but be at- tentive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its exiftence : or , in other words , that his omniscience and omni- prefence are co ...
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... fame manner that we treat him . ' But I fhall conclude this dif- courfe with those more emphatical words in divine revelation ; If a man love me , he will keep my words ; and my Father will love him , and we will come unto him , and ...
... fame manner that we treat him . ' But I fhall conclude this dif- courfe with those more emphatical words in divine revelation ; If a man love me , he will keep my words ; and my Father will love him , and we will come unto him , and ...
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... fame time ; the Elyfium , the other caught hold of her to car- ry her away to Erebus . But Rhadamanthus obferving an ingenuous modefty in her coun- tenance and behaviour , bid them both let her loofe , and fet her afide for a re ...
... fame time ; the Elyfium , the other caught hold of her to car- ry her away to Erebus . But Rhadamanthus obferving an ingenuous modefty in her coun- tenance and behaviour , bid them both let her loofe , and fet her afide for a re ...
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... fame age , interro- gated her in the fame form . To which the matron replied , I have been the wife of a huf- band who was as dear to me in his old age as in his youth . I have been a mother , and very happy in my children , whom I ...
... fame age , interro- gated her in the fame form . To which the matron replied , I have been the wife of a huf- band who was as dear to me in his old age as in his youth . I have been a mother , and very happy in my children , whom I ...
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... fame advantages of fortune , are not all equally profperous in the courfe of life . While fome of them , by wife and fteady conduct , attain diftinction in the world , and pafs their days with comfort and honour ; others of the fame ...
... fame advantages of fortune , are not all equally profperous in the courfe of life . While fome of them , by wife and fteady conduct , attain diftinction in the world , and pafs their days with comfort and honour ; others of the fame ...
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3. oldal - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
1. oldal - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and, taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
70. oldal - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
249. oldal - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
36. oldal - Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of Him who is the great Author of Good, and Father of Mercies.
365. oldal - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
1. oldal - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
36. oldal - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
1. oldal - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
338. oldal - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...