Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - 356 halaman |
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... thick darkness and sendeth out lightnings like arrows . " The phi- losopher who discovered the immediate cause of the rainbow , raised his thoughts to Him , " who placeth his bow in the heavens . Very beautiful is 22 To final cause,
... thick darkness and sendeth out lightnings like arrows . " The phi- losopher who discovered the immediate cause of the rainbow , raised his thoughts to Him , " who placeth his bow in the heavens . Very beautiful is 22 To final cause,
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Basil Montagu. placeth his bow in the heavens . Very beautiful is it in the brightness thereof , and the hand of the Almighty hath bended it . " When a vessel is carried away by a torrent ; when a hurricane carries before it all the ...
Basil Montagu. placeth his bow in the heavens . Very beautiful is it in the brightness thereof , and the hand of the Almighty hath bended it . " When a vessel is carried away by a torrent ; when a hurricane carries before it all the ...
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... beautiful country and not grieve , because he was going to plentiful , kind , and happy England . He had scarcely landed , when a villain saw the friendless boy , asked him to eat and drink and play with his children , and then murdered ...
... beautiful country and not grieve , because he was going to plentiful , kind , and happy England . He had scarcely landed , when a villain saw the friendless boy , asked him to eat and drink and play with his children , and then murdered ...
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... beautiful place , full of roses and myrtles , and smooth green turf , and murmuring rivulets , and , though very retired , yet not abso- lutely out of the world , but where one would oc- casionally see one's friends , and give déjeunés ...
... beautiful place , full of roses and myrtles , and smooth green turf , and murmuring rivulets , and , though very retired , yet not abso- lutely out of the world , but where one would oc- casionally see one's friends , and give déjeunés ...
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... beautiful anatomy of that miserable policy , which sets a bias upon the bowl of its own petty ends and devices , to the over- throw of great and important affairs . In this essay , he says , " It is a poor centre of a man's actions ...
... beautiful anatomy of that miserable policy , which sets a bias upon the bowl of its own petty ends and devices , to the over- throw of great and important affairs . In this essay , he says , " It is a poor centre of a man's actions ...
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Halaman 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Halaman 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Halaman 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Halaman 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Halaman 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Halaman 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Halaman 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Halaman 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Halaman 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Halaman 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...