The Works of William Smith, D. D.: Late Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, Volume 1Hugh Maxwell and William Fry, no. 25, North Second-Street, 1803 - Sermons, American |
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Page 143
... Virgil has pointed out , and described , fit mansions , and proper Employments for them , in what are called the Elysian Fields , ( Æneid , book VI ; ) and Monsieur Simon , ( in a memoir , read before the French Academy of Sciences ...
... Virgil has pointed out , and described , fit mansions , and proper Employments for them , in what are called the Elysian Fields , ( Æneid , book VI ; ) and Monsieur Simon , ( in a memoir , read before the French Academy of Sciences ...
Page 144
... Virgil , ( as hinted before ) , hath provided Elysian Fields , or places of abode and employment , for the Good among them ; not neglecting places for the Bad also . Let us take a trip , or short tour , with him through those beautiful ...
... Virgil , ( as hinted before ) , hath provided Elysian Fields , or places of abode and employment , for the Good among them ; not neglecting places for the Bad also . Let us take a trip , or short tour , with him through those beautiful ...
Page 145
... Virgil then first describes the crimes and various cases of the mise- rable , that nothing might remain to cloud our Joy , when we come to his beautiful description of the happy places of Elysium , and the characters of those Heroes and ...
... Virgil then first describes the crimes and various cases of the mise- rable , that nothing might remain to cloud our Joy , when we come to his beautiful description of the happy places of Elysium , and the characters of those Heroes and ...
Page 146
... Virgil then sinks the Abodes of the Miserable twice as deep towards the Shades downwards , as the Prospect from the earth upwards to the ethereal Throne of Heaven , was before . " Tum Tartarus ipse " Bis patet in præceps tantum ...
... Virgil then sinks the Abodes of the Miserable twice as deep towards the Shades downwards , as the Prospect from the earth upwards to the ethereal Throne of Heaven , was before . " Tum Tartarus ipse " Bis patet in præceps tantum ...
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... Virgil lastly , wearied as it were with enumeration , lumps his Guilty , or takes them in the gross ; mentioning only a few for the rest ; as Sisyphus doomed , with perpetual Labour , to heave a huge and unwieldy Stone against the ...
... Virgil lastly , wearied as it were with enumeration , lumps his Guilty , or takes them in the gross ; mentioning only a few for the rest ; as Sisyphus doomed , with perpetual Labour , to heave a huge and unwieldy Stone against the ...
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Page 36 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire : 2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth...
Page 165 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 149 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man ; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Page 149 - The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire ; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 145 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 70 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Page 71 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 36 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 126 - This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Page 6 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.