Scripture Proverbs: Illustrated, Annotated, and AppliedT. Whittaker, 1876 - 604 pages |
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... cited in Scripture as such ; the third , on Heaviness for a Night , treats of a verse which , though not in form or design a pro- verb , may be regarded as one in all practical effect vi PREFACE . and usage ; and so of other.
... cited in Scripture as such ; the third , on Heaviness for a Night , treats of a verse which , though not in form or design a pro- verb , may be regarded as one in all practical effect vi PREFACE . and usage ; and so of other.
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... effect identical with the New Testament adage , or saw , about the prophet being of no account in his own country , or B 2 SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS . in his father's house SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS (I SAM x II, Prophet in his own country ...
... effect identical with the New Testament adage , or saw , about the prophet being of no account in his own country , or B 2 SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS . in his father's house SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS (I SAM x II, Prophet in his own country ...
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... effect by too great familiarity , writes Beethoven to the Archduke Rudolph , when advising him to make a pause with the Lobkowitz concerts . Dr. South expatiates on the virtue of distance in preserving respect - so apt are we to imagine ...
... effect by too great familiarity , writes Beethoven to the Archduke Rudolph , when advising him to make a pause with the Lobkowitz concerts . Dr. South expatiates on the virtue of distance in preserving respect - so apt are we to imagine ...
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... effects every minute , he wearies of it . And yet it is as grand as ever ; the same volume is pouring forth , the ... effect it produced ; and unless it can , in itself , exceed this by some new and utter convulsion of its nature , it ...
... effects every minute , he wearies of it . And yet it is as grand as ever ; the same volume is pouring forth , the ... effect it produced ; and unless it can , in itself , exceed this by some new and utter convulsion of its nature , it ...
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... effect is his argument in another place , that although it is of much more importance that the knowledge of religious truth should be widely diffused than that the art of sculpture should flourish among us , yet does it by no means ...
... effect is his argument in another place , that although it is of much more importance that the knowledge of religious truth should be widely diffused than that the art of sculpture should flourish among us , yet does it by no means ...
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Page 440 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world...
Page 351 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 160 - Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Page 492 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 351 - Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion...
Page 457 - Sleepless; and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first Cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me...
Page 126 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 552 - Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Page 29 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come ; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow ; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Page 440 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.