Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 páginas |
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... virtue , learning , art , or eloquence . " Why not ! you cry : they plainly fee , no doubt- " A priest may grow right reverend without . " Art of Preaching . I am , Dear Friend , Yours . LETTER VI . Youth is the ftock whence grafted ...
... virtue , learning , art , or eloquence . " Why not ! you cry : they plainly fee , no doubt- " A priest may grow right reverend without . " Art of Preaching . I am , Dear Friend , Yours . LETTER VI . Youth is the ftock whence grafted ...
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... Virtue our good , and happiness our end ; How foon must reafon o'er the world prevail , And error , fraud , and superstition fail ! None would hereafter , then , with groundless fear , Describe th ' Almighty cruel and severe . SOAME ...
... Virtue our good , and happiness our end ; How foon must reafon o'er the world prevail , And error , fraud , and superstition fail ! None would hereafter , then , with groundless fear , Describe th ' Almighty cruel and severe . SOAME ...
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... in Guilt's or Ignorance's fhade , Each vain or cruel practice call in aid , M : intain with reafon a perpetual fight , And virtue barter for the empty right . Obferve the entrails , mark the flying bird , Hang 56 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
... in Guilt's or Ignorance's fhade , Each vain or cruel practice call in aid , M : intain with reafon a perpetual fight , And virtue barter for the empty right . Obferve the entrails , mark the flying bird , Hang 56 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
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... virtues that vile papit claims ; Fergetting Paul , he spurns at faith alone , And bids our faintship by our lives be known : All Cato's virtue was not worth a pin , And Phocion's exit but a fhining fin . DEAR FRIEND , THE HE ...
... virtues that vile papit claims ; Fergetting Paul , he spurns at faith alone , And bids our faintship by our lives be known : All Cato's virtue was not worth a pin , And Phocion's exit but a fhining fin . DEAR FRIEND , THE HE ...
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... virtue dwells in dirt : While all concur to take away the stress , From weightier points , and lay it on the lefs . STILLINGFLEET on Conversation . ' Gad ! I've a thriving traffic in my eye . Near the mad mansions of Moorfield's I'll ...
... virtue dwells in dirt : While all concur to take away the stress , From weightier points , and lay it on the lefs . STILLINGFLEET on Conversation . ' Gad ! I've a thriving traffic in my eye . Near the mad mansions of Moorfield's I'll ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 159 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 110 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Página 85 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 247 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Página 151 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 169 - To Banbury came I; O prophane one ! Where I saw a puritane one, Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Página 163 - This I take to be properly enthusiasm, which, though founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain, works yet, where it once gets footing, more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either of those two, or both together...
Página 81 - ... state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Página 163 - God, I own, cannot be denied to be able to enlighten the understanding, by a ray darted into the mind immediately from the fountain of light...
Página 238 - The best time for bookselling, is when there is no kind of news stirring ; then many of those who for months would have done nothing but talk of war or peace, revolutions, and counter-revolutions, &c.