The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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... only useful as a guide - mark to a wanderer on the wilderness or ocean , so a truth pushed to its highest generality , becomes less clear , even should its true- Suppose I It is evident ness not be lost . 10 THE PURITAN .
... only useful as a guide - mark to a wanderer on the wilderness or ocean , so a truth pushed to its highest generality , becomes less clear , even should its true- Suppose I It is evident ness not be lost . 10 THE PURITAN .
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A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous Leonard Withington. Suppose I It is evident ness not be lost . Or , it is like a candle in a room , which reflects much light when its rays are confined and returned by the walls ...
A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous Leonard Withington. Suppose I It is evident ness not be lost . Or , it is like a candle in a room , which reflects much light when its rays are confined and returned by the walls ...
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... suppose a candle placed before a female domestic , and ask what point of knowledge was most valuable to her , as to any use which she could apply it , we shall find , that what she needs to know is , that the object is a candle ; Number ...
... suppose a candle placed before a female domestic , and ask what point of knowledge was most valuable to her , as to any use which she could apply it , we shall find , that what she needs to know is , that the object is a candle ; Number ...
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... suppose any rational man would say that the word ought , refers only to what is possible ; for , impossibilium nulla est obligatio , there is no obli- gation which binds to impossibilities ; and in a vast political movement , I take it ...
... suppose any rational man would say that the word ought , refers only to what is possible ; for , impossibilium nulla est obligatio , there is no obli- gation which binds to impossibilities ; and in a vast political movement , I take it ...
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... suppose the wandering story - teller and singer , whom , for the want of a more personal name , we call Homer , to be surrounded by a ring of barbarians , who , having no war on their hands , and their bellies full , require him to ...
... suppose the wandering story - teller and singer , whom , for the want of a more personal name , we call Homer , to be surrounded by a ring of barbarians , who , having no war on their hands , and their bellies full , require him to ...
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Page 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Page 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Page 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 229 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Page 37 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...
Page 106 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.