The Moral Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse. For the Instruction and Entertainment of YouthT. Cadell, 1773 - 376 pages |
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... feem born to enjoy life , but to deliver it down to others . This is not furprising to confider in animals , which are formed for our ufe , and can finish their bufinefs in a fhort life . The filk - worm , after having spun her tafk ...
... feem born to enjoy life , but to deliver it down to others . This is not furprising to confider in animals , which are formed for our ufe , and can finish their bufinefs in a fhort life . The filk - worm , after having spun her tafk ...
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... feem to have as much knowledge and reafon , as fome that are called men ; and the animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearly joined , that if you will take the loweft of one , and the highest of the other , there will fearce be ...
... feem to have as much knowledge and reafon , as fome that are called men ; and the animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearly joined , that if you will take the loweft of one , and the highest of the other , there will fearce be ...
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... feem to be guided much more than by their reafon . I would therefore have ⚫ them confider , that the wifeft and beft of men in of the world , have been those who lived up to the religion of their country , when they faw no- thing in it ...
... feem to be guided much more than by their reafon . I would therefore have ⚫ them confider , that the wifeft and beft of men in of the world , have been those who lived up to the religion of their country , when they faw no- thing in it ...
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... feem to have very little ufe in them ; as from the wildness of rocks and deferts , and the like grotesque parts of nature . Those who are verfed in philofophy may ftill carry this confideration higher by obferving , that , if matter had ...
... feem to have very little ufe in them ; as from the wildness of rocks and deferts , and the like grotesque parts of nature . Those who are verfed in philofophy may ftill carry this confideration higher by obferving , that , if matter had ...
Page 124
... feem to anfver the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated be- tween them by article , and confirmed by the confent of each family , that notwithstanding they bere ...
... feem to anfver the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated be- tween them by article , and confirmed by the confent of each family , that notwithstanding they bere ...
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Page 127 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 344 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 168 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 13 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 127 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 346 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 344 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 346 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 344 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.