New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Volume 1C. and C. Whittingham; Published by Carpenter and son, 1827 |
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... give good gifts unto your children , how much more shall your Father , which is in heaven , give good things to them that ask him ! " From whence it is obvious to remark , that as the humane and generous man has a pecu- liar tenderness ...
... give good gifts unto your children , how much more shall your Father , which is in heaven , give good things to them that ask him ! " From whence it is obvious to remark , that as the humane and generous man has a pecu- liar tenderness ...
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... gives birth to ; what a manifestation of wisdom to have made animals various in number , and different in their natures , to find each its proper food and nourishment in the country it belongs to ; to have furnished each with an ...
... gives birth to ; what a manifestation of wisdom to have made animals various in number , and different in their natures , to find each its proper food and nourishment in the country it belongs to ; to have furnished each with an ...
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... give such faithful indications of whatever would be contrary to the welfare of the whole frame ? Why are the several passages , as well those of the senses as those through which the aliment takes its course , provided in such a manner ...
... give such faithful indications of whatever would be contrary to the welfare of the whole frame ? Why are the several passages , as well those of the senses as those through which the aliment takes its course , provided in such a manner ...
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... give a decided opinion in favour of destroying deformed or sickly , infants . We have already seen that this execrable practice was even en- joined by Lycurgus , yet the humane Plutarch sees nothing unjust in any of his laws , and con ...
... give a decided opinion in favour of destroying deformed or sickly , infants . We have already seen that this execrable practice was even en- joined by Lycurgus , yet the humane Plutarch sees nothing unjust in any of his laws , and con ...
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... give to the heart to think of parting for ever ! We con- tract an attachment even to inanimate objects . The tree under whose shadow we have often sat ; the fields where we have frequently strayed ; the hill , the scene of contemplation ...
... give to the heart to think of parting for ever ! We con- tract an attachment even to inanimate objects . The tree under whose shadow we have often sat ; the fields where we have frequently strayed ; the hill , the scene of contemplation ...
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Page 153 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 153 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Page 109 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Page 79 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 155 - Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet...
Page 156 - Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, " If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Page 40 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 154 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 270 - ... wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained...
Page 56 - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our' senses to be so many sores and pains to us...