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... Heaven -581 . The Author's Answer to his Correspon- dents ; Letters from a Lover and a young Lady 582. On the Itch of Writing ..... 583. Duty of being usefully employed - on Planting 584. Story of Uilpa .. 585. The same concluded ...
... Heaven -581 . The Author's Answer to his Correspon- dents ; Letters from a Lover and a young Lady 582. On the Itch of Writing ..... 583. Duty of being usefully employed - on Planting 584. Story of Uilpa .. 585. The same concluded ...
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... heaven ? LUC . As the work I have engaged in will not only consist of papers of humour and learning , but of several essays moral and divine , I shall publish the follow- ing one , which is founded on a former Spectator , and sent me by ...
... heaven ? LUC . As the work I have engaged in will not only consist of papers of humour and learning , but of several essays moral and divine , I shall publish the follow- ing one , which is founded on a former Spectator , and sent me by ...
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... heavens and the earth , the stars and planets , move and gravitate by virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the presence of their creator , and made capable of ex- erting their ...
... heavens and the earth , the stars and planets , move and gravitate by virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the presence of their creator , and made capable of ex- erting their ...
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... heaven ; but the inhabitants of the former behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipotence incensed . 6 ...
... heaven ; but the inhabitants of the former behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omnipotence incensed . 6 ...
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... heaven behold him face to face , that is , are as sensible of his presence as we are of the presence of any person whom we look upon with our eyes . There is , doubtless , a faculty in spirits by which they apprehend one another as our ...
... heaven behold him face to face , that is , are as sensible of his presence as we are of the presence of any person whom we look upon with our eyes . There is , doubtless , a faculty in spirits by which they apprehend one another as our ...
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Page 63 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 246 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 229 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 28 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Page 41 - I write (whether I consist of all the same substance, material or immaterial, or no) that I was yesterday; for as to this point of being the same self, it matters not whether this present self be made up of the same or other substances...
Page 199 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 26 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, Content is natural wealth, says 20 Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial poverty.
Page 54 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 133 - ... we divide the soul into several powers and faculties, there is no such division in the soul itself, since it is the whole soul that remembers, understands, wills, or imagines. Our manner of considering the memory, understanding, will, imagination, and the like, faculties, is for the better enabling us to express ourselves in such abstracted subjects of speculation, not that there is any such division in the soul itself.
Page 10 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.