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... blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , 130 134 137 137 133 141 143 144 146 147 10 . Schemes of life often illusory , 148 11 . The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 150 12. On the true honour of man , 152 13. The influence ...
... blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , 130 134 137 137 133 141 143 144 146 147 10 . Schemes of life often illusory , 148 11 . The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 150 12. On the true honour of man , 152 13. The influence ...
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... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to ...
... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to ...
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... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society . The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store . futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life ...
... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society . The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store . futurity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life ...
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... bless the hermit in his cell . I have a temple in every heart that owns my influence ; and to him that wishes for me I am already present . Science may raise thee to em- nenee ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " While Vir- tue ...
... bless the hermit in his cell . I have a temple in every heart that owns my influence ; and to him that wishes for me I am already present . Science may raise thee to em- nenee ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " While Vir- tue ...
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... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed , there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed , there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray Aristotle attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts death Democritus Descartes Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enemies enjoy enjoyment envy ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven hepa Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocent Jugurtha king labour lence live look Lord mankind ment Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r present prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising scene SECTION sense sentence shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity verse vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Popular passages
Page 223 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 228 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 229 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 177 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 216 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 186 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Page 241 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 217 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 172 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 236 - And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate. Left free the human will.