The Library Companion, Or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library, 1. osa

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Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825 - 899 pages
 

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Page 28 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 377 - No more of talk where God or angel guest With man, as with his friend, familiar used To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast...
Page 37 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 29 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ? — for shall not inherit.
Page 409 - A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the purpose of Completing the Discovery of that vast Country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner.
Page 239 - Scotish verse By John Barbour. The First Genuine Edition, Published from a MS. dated 1489 ; With Notes and a Glossary By J.
Page 57 - He is at least one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be safely pleased; and happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed, by his verses or his prose, to imitate him in all but his non-conformity, to copy his benevolence to man, and his reverence to God.
Page 65 - My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Page 363 - A collection of voyages and travels . . . compiled from the library of the Earl of Oxford.
Page 62 - It would pity a man's heart to hear that, that I hear, of the state of Cambridge : what it is in Oxford I cannot tell. There be few do study divinity, but so many as of necessity must furnish the Colleges.

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