Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South, Brown, Fuller and BaconW. Pickering, 1839 - 350 pages |
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... condition . When the old man was gone , God called to Abraham , and asked him where the stran- ger was ? He replied , I thrust him away because he did not worship thee . God answered him , I have suffered him these hundred years ...
... condition . When the old man was gone , God called to Abraham , and asked him where the stran- ger was ? He replied , I thrust him away because he did not worship thee . God answered him , I have suffered him these hundred years ...
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... condition of an orphan . For she that is bound to leave father , and mother , and brother for thee , either is miser- able like a poor fatherless child , or else ought to find all these , and more , in thee . HIS LOVE . THERE is nothing ...
... condition of an orphan . For she that is bound to leave father , and mother , and brother for thee , either is miser- able like a poor fatherless child , or else ought to find all these , and more , in thee . HIS LOVE . THERE is nothing ...
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... condition in the whole world . When he slew them , they sought him and turned them early , and enquired after God ; but as long as they prevailed upon their enemies , they forgat that God was their strength , and the high God was their ...
... condition in the whole world . When he slew them , they sought him and turned them early , and enquired after God ; but as long as they prevailed upon their enemies , they forgat that God was their strength , and the high God was their ...
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... condition of the mise- rable , no man so timorous as to fear a dead bee ; but anger is troubled at every thing , and every man , and every accident , and therefore unless it be suppressed , it will make a man's condition restless . If ...
... condition of the mise- rable , no man so timorous as to fear a dead bee ; but anger is troubled at every thing , and every man , and every accident , and therefore unless it be suppressed , it will make a man's condition restless . If ...
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... condition , and my own reason , might rather have put me upon the making of my fortune . I have given proof that all minds are capable of goodness ; and I have illustrated the obscurity of my family by the eminency of my virtue . I have ...
... condition , and my own reason , might rather have put me upon the making of my fortune . I have given proof that all minds are capable of goodness ; and I have illustrated the obscurity of my family by the eminency of my virtue . I have ...
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Page 325 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty...
Page 262 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 290 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 45 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 277 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 281 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 327 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's Spring but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 90 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 16 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
Page 97 - ... heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield...