The Visitor: By Several Hands, Volumen2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1764 |
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... wish I could add fatif- factorily clear to the afflicted minds of men . I know your high veneration for the revealed reli- gion , and I have the comfort to say , that I am thankful and fenfible of fo fuperlative a bleffing vouchfafed to ...
... wish I could add fatif- factorily clear to the afflicted minds of men . I know your high veneration for the revealed reli- gion , and I have the comfort to say , that I am thankful and fenfible of fo fuperlative a bleffing vouchfafed to ...
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... wish to discover . Perhaps it is wisest for I am convinced that every ordination of the Supreme is wifeft and beft , -that the human mind should continue in its present ftate with this dark veil before it . But would it not be pleasing ...
... wish to discover . Perhaps it is wisest for I am convinced that every ordination of the Supreme is wifeft and beft , -that the human mind should continue in its present ftate with this dark veil before it . But would it not be pleasing ...
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... we would indulge a beneficent wish , that it may have been the secondary cause , at least , of kind- ling up the glow of rofeate beauty in many a pale pale and lovely cheek ; of reftoring many a lan- $ 4 N ° 47 . THE VISITOR .
... we would indulge a beneficent wish , that it may have been the secondary cause , at least , of kind- ling up the glow of rofeate beauty in many a pale pale and lovely cheek ; of reftoring many a lan- $ 4 N ° 47 . THE VISITOR .
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... wish , no real caufe had ever been given ; to whom we earnestly pray , that no future cause may ever be given , to say , - " Why fhould we become chriftians ? are they better than we ? they lie , they fwear , they fteal , they cheat ...
... wish , no real caufe had ever been given ; to whom we earnestly pray , that no future cause may ever be given , to say , - " Why fhould we become chriftians ? are they better than we ? they lie , they fwear , they fteal , they cheat ...
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... wishes to furvey , he adds , Amazing fcene ! Behold ! The glooms difclofe ; I fee the rivers in their infant beds ! Deep , deep , I hear them lab'ring to get free ! I fee the leaning Strata , artful rang'd ; The gaping fiffures to ...
... wishes to furvey , he adds , Amazing fcene ! Behold ! The glooms difclofe ; I fee the rivers in their infant beds ! Deep , deep , I hear them lab'ring to get free ! I fee the leaning Strata , artful rang'd ; The gaping fiffures to ...
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Página 92 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 182 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 72 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Página 182 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 73 - O that men would therefore praise the Lord, and declare the wonders that He doth for the children of men!
Página 207 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Página 91 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful ; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge : Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
Página 149 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 149 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Página 181 - I myself have seen the ungodly in great power : and flourishing like a green bay-tree. I went by, and lo, he was gone : I sought him, but his place could no where be found.