Hidden fields
Books Books
" Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide. "
Poems - Page 48
by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pages
Full view - About this book

The British Messenger: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the ..., Volumes 1-5

1879 - 474 pages
...coming, but on the small scale in the growth of sin in every man's breast. The poet has said, that "faults in the life breed errors in the brain, and these reciprocally those again." But here we read a greater truth. Ungodliness and unrighteousness are the two parents of all evil;...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1853 - 520 pages
...Bend the ftraight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and mining lamp fupplied, Firft put it out, then take it for a guide. Halting on crutches of unequal fize, One leg by truth fupported, one by lies ; They fidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1854 - 460 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill, 556 Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will, And, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing—but to lose the race. Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally,...
Full view - About this book

Poems

William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...ends— But not the mischiefs ; they, still left behind, Like thistle seeds, are sown by every wind. 555 First put it out, then take it for a guide. Halting on crutches of unequal size, 560 One leg by truth supported, one by lies ; They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing—but...
Full view - About this book

Poems, Volumes 1-3

William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...'amp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide. " Halting on crutches of unequal size, 660 One leg by truth supported, one by lies ; They sidle...— but to lose the race. Faults in the life breed errours in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. 565 The mind and conduct mutually imprint...
Full view - About this book

The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 6

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 pages
...mysterious. " Tbus men go wrong with au ingenious skill, Bend the strict rule to their own crooked will, And, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide !" This general fault we find throughout the whole course of education — beginning with its first...
Full view - About this book

English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...attention first of all upon himself — that was inevitable. — DE Q.UINCEY. CS Note I. — a. Errors in the life breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. CS b. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these....
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: & a Memoir of the Author

William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...wind. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First...They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing—but to lose the race. Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally...
Full view - About this book

The Monthly observer, and New Church record, Volumes 1-5

1857 - 1824 pages
...Christian." Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide. Thus, with some preachers, the Old Testament writiugs seem to bt' altogether superfluous ; and with...
Full view - About this book

Life Studies: Or, How to Live. Illustrated in the Biographies of Bunyan ...

John Baillie - 1857 - 380 pages
...says : " Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill, Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide." It is because Perthes has himself been driven upon truth by the inward necessities of an accusing conscience...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF