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... particular wind , that forms these hideous whirlpools , or whether every tempeftuous wind alike difturbs that boift- erous fea : and whether it be true , that whatever is fucked in , is carried under the water many miles , and flung up ...
... particular wind , that forms these hideous whirlpools , or whether every tempeftuous wind alike difturbs that boift- erous fea : and whether it be true , that whatever is fucked in , is carried under the water many miles , and flung up ...
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... particular under confideration , what conflitutes the happy man , will be equal in all . I know not whether your Etna will fink and be confumed ; or whether the fire by degrees will first eat away its lofty summit , now fo confpicuous ...
... particular under confideration , what conflitutes the happy man , will be equal in all . I know not whether your Etna will fink and be confumed ; or whether the fire by degrees will first eat away its lofty summit , now fo confpicuous ...
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... particular error . But as in fome things we believe the vulgar , let us take this alfo upon the fame credit , that nothing is more juft and honorable than a grateful mind . All cities and nations , in the most remote and barbarous ...
... particular error . But as in fome things we believe the vulgar , let us take this alfo upon the fame credit , that nothing is more juft and honorable than a grateful mind . All cities and nations , in the most remote and barbarous ...
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... particular mark , fo as to exhibit a fameness ( d ) . Do you not obferve that a choir confifts of many voices ? yet from All arifeth but one harmonious found . One voice is treble , another base , bafe , another the mean or tenour ; the ...
... particular mark , fo as to exhibit a fameness ( d ) . Do you not obferve that a choir confifts of many voices ? yet from All arifeth but one harmonious found . One voice is treble , another base , bafe , another the mean or tenour ; the ...
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... particular , but they are all happily blended in one : I am speaking of fuch a choir , or musical performance , as was known to the antient lovers of Mufic . At the reprefentation of a play we have as many fingers as in the Theatres ...
... particular , but they are all happily blended in one : I am speaking of fuch a choir , or musical performance , as was known to the antient lovers of Mufic . At the reprefentation of a play we have as many fingers as in the Theatres ...
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Page 161 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 182 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 145 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 181 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 145 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 85 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 196 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 140 - ... and dangers of the air and the earth, there are perils by water and perils by fire. This...
Page 140 - ... and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourfelves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Page 148 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.