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... give a name to certain thoughts and opinions here put forward . That I have not placed upon my own any peculiar value will be seen from the trouble I have taken to strengthen every propo- sition by citations from better writers and from ...
... give a name to certain thoughts and opinions here put forward . That I have not placed upon my own any peculiar value will be seen from the trouble I have taken to strengthen every propo- sition by citations from better writers and from ...
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... gives of him- self as persecuted by everybody , followed by poets who begged his help- No place is sacred ; not the church is free : E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath Day to me . Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to ...
... gives of him- self as persecuted by everybody , followed by poets who begged his help- No place is sacred ; not the church is free : E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath Day to me . Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to ...
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... , to be in God's stead to us ; to give us laws , and to exact obedience to those laws ; to punish them that prevaricate , and to reward the obedient . Therefore Conscience is called the Household 24 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... , to be in God's stead to us ; to give us laws , and to exact obedience to those laws ; to punish them that prevaricate , and to reward the obedient . Therefore Conscience is called the Household 24 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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... gives a fearful picture of a guilty one before God at the last day : - He cannot plead , his throat is choked , Sin holds him in her might ; And , self - condemn'd , he slideth down To an eternal night ! The ranged angels , great white ...
... gives a fearful picture of a guilty one before God at the last day : - He cannot plead , his throat is choked , Sin holds him in her might ; And , self - condemn'd , he slideth down To an eternal night ! The ranged angels , great white ...
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... gives many amusing instances . We will cite one , and then leave a most interesting subject to the reader's consideration . ' Autolycus robbed the gardens of Trebonius , a private citizen , who forgave him . Then Trebonius was chosen ...
... gives many amusing instances . We will cite one , and then leave a most interesting subject to the reader's consideration . ' Autolycus robbed the gardens of Trebonius , a private citizen , who forgave him . Then Trebonius was chosen ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.