Essays, Moral and EntertainingJ. Sharpe, 1819 - 166 pages |
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... doth not divert us , as it need not to do , it will the better prepare and dispose us to be satisfied after we have it ; whereas nothing is more usual than for men who succeed in their most impatient pretences , to be more unsatisfied ...
... doth not divert us , as it need not to do , it will the better prepare and dispose us to be satisfied after we have it ; whereas nothing is more usual than for men who succeed in their most impatient pretences , to be more unsatisfied ...
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... doth consider how near he is of kin to God himself , and how excellently he is quali- fied by him to judge aright of all the delusions and appearances of the world , if he will employ those faculties he hath adorned him with ; that ...
... doth consider how near he is of kin to God himself , and how excellently he is quali- fied by him to judge aright of all the delusions and appearances of the world , if he will employ those faculties he hath adorned him with ; that ...
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... doth too frequently expose men to derision and notorious contempt , when so gross defects of the mind are discovered , as make the other beauty less agreeable by being more remarkable : whereas , on the contrary , the beauty of the mind ...
... doth too frequently expose men to derision and notorious contempt , when so gross defects of the mind are discovered , as make the other beauty less agreeable by being more remarkable : whereas , on the contrary , the beauty of the mind ...
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... conduct of business , will make men as wise as they need to be ; and the affectation of books doth but introduce pedantry into the man- ners of men , and make them impertinent and troublesome c 2 REFLECTIONS ON HAPPINESS . 33 F ...
... conduct of business , will make men as wise as they need to be ; and the affectation of books doth but introduce pedantry into the man- ners of men , and make them impertinent and troublesome c 2 REFLECTIONS ON HAPPINESS . 33 F ...
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... doth in truth enter into our habitation by force , though he doth sub- due us ; let it not have the entertainment of a friend , of a companion for whose presence we were solicitous if we want power and strength to re- ject it , let us ...
... doth in truth enter into our habitation by force , though he doth sub- due us ; let it not have the entertainment of a friend , of a companion for whose presence we were solicitous if we want power and strength to re- ject it , let us ...
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Page 151 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 136 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 187 - And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid : and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Page 21 - Bible as well as King James's. The Translators in King James's time took an excellent way. That Part of the Bible was given to him who was most excellent in such a Tongue (as the Apocrypha to Andrew...
Page 164 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 192 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself ? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery ? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege ? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God ? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Page 125 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Page 146 - THE Law against Witches does not prove there be any ; but it punishes the Malice of those People, that use such means to take away Men's Lives. If one should profess that by turning his Hat thrice, and crying Buz, he could take away a Man's Life, though in truth he could do no such thing, yet this were a just Law made by the State, that whosoever should turn his Hat thrice, and cry Buz, with an intention to take away a Man's Life, shall be put to death.
Page 54 - Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot 1 . What an uncertain measure would this be.
Page 79 - Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.