Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c: Together with Nine Papers from the Olla Podrida; and PoemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1808 - 295 pages |
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... lady once offered to attend the kirk there , if she might be permitted to have the pew swept and lined . " The pew swept and lined ! " said Mess John's wife , my husband would think it 66 " downright popery ! " 11. If the intended ...
... lady once offered to attend the kirk there , if she might be permitted to have the pew swept and lined . " The pew swept and lined ! " said Mess John's wife , my husband would think it 66 " downright popery ! " 11. If the intended ...
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... lady will be the cat she was , when a mouse runs before her . FAITH . 1. IN the affairs of this world , as husbandry , trade , & c . men know little and believe much . In the affairs of another world , they would know every thing , and ...
... lady will be the cat she was , when a mouse runs before her . FAITH . 1. IN the affairs of this world , as husbandry , trade , & c . men know little and believe much . In the affairs of another world , they would know every thing , and ...
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... Lady Fanny Shirley , in a serious discourse they had on the Evi- dences of Christianity , that there was one , which he thought to be invincible , not to be got over by the wit of man ; viz . the present state of the Jews — a fact to be ...
... Lady Fanny Shirley , in a serious discourse they had on the Evi- dences of Christianity , that there was one , which he thought to be invincible , not to be got over by the wit of man ; viz . the present state of the Jews — a fact to be ...
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... lady of piety and judgment her opinion of a Methodist teacher ; " He will soon ( said she ) by great humi- lity become the head of a sect , and damn all " the rest of the world in the very spirit of cha- " rity . " 66 2. The Scriptures ...
... lady of piety and judgment her opinion of a Methodist teacher ; " He will soon ( said she ) by great humi- lity become the head of a sect , and damn all " the rest of the world in the very spirit of cha- " rity . " 66 2. The Scriptures ...
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... of Mad . Pompadour . - See a letter of Lady M. W. Montague , in which she ex- tols the superior felicity of a milkmaid . These tes- timonies are curious , and worth noting . 2. A child is eager to have any toy he 156.
... of Mad . Pompadour . - See a letter of Lady M. W. Montague , in which she ex- tols the superior felicity of a milkmaid . These tes- timonies are curious , and worth noting . 2. A child is eager to have any toy he 156.
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Page 68 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 255 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 43 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Page 255 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 166 - It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, "that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
Page 255 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 257 - A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.
Page 277 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Page 228 - He felt his own powers; he felt what he was capable of having performed ; and he saw how little, comparatively speaking, he had performed. Hence his apprehensions on the near prospect of the account to be made, viewed through the medium of constitutional and morbid melancholy, which often excluded from his sight the bright beams of divine mercy. May those beams ever shine upon us ! But let them not cause us to forget, that talents have been bestowed, of which an account must be rendered; and that...
Page 44 - Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read!