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... merit , the sense we entertain of his labours . These properties of his work are now in opera- tion ; the first glance of beauty has been shot ; the brilliance , which at first was almost nimium lubricus aspici , is improved into a ...
... merit , the sense we entertain of his labours . These properties of his work are now in opera- tion ; the first glance of beauty has been shot ; the brilliance , which at first was almost nimium lubricus aspici , is improved into a ...
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... merits of Sir Isaac Newton is the principal subject , does not seem essentially to forward , or , indeed , to have much connection with the argument , and we cannot help supposing that this part of the present volume was composed before ...
... merits of Sir Isaac Newton is the principal subject , does not seem essentially to forward , or , indeed , to have much connection with the argument , and we cannot help supposing that this part of the present volume was composed before ...
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... merit . What it undertakes is fairly accomplished , and in a manner highly creditable to the attainments and good taste of the author . " To settle the hydrography and to ascertain the naval resources , was the main design of the ...
... merit . What it undertakes is fairly accomplished , and in a manner highly creditable to the attainments and good taste of the author . " To settle the hydrography and to ascertain the naval resources , was the main design of the ...
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... merits of our Redeemer , and to obtain strength from above against the recur- rence of temptation . Yet still there will remain a wound ; the remem- brance of the past will be grievous ; and though the peaceful conscious- ness of a ...
... merits of our Redeemer , and to obtain strength from above against the recur- rence of temptation . Yet still there will remain a wound ; the remem- brance of the past will be grievous ; and though the peaceful conscious- ness of a ...
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... merits and mediation of Jesus Christ , he seems , in point of fact , for many years to have viewed the atonement , rather as a medium through which God is pleased to accept our imperfect 74 Wilks's Christian Essays .
... merits and mediation of Jesus Christ , he seems , in point of fact , for many years to have viewed the atonement , rather as a medium through which God is pleased to accept our imperfect 74 Wilks's Christian Essays .
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Página 47 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone, When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...
Página 90 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 90 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon ; yet they stood Within a bow-shot.
Página 53 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Página 147 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 189 - And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits which, by his precious bloodshedding, he hath obtained to us...
Página 89 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Página 276 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Página 162 - This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.
Página 161 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk,) but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...