Addresses to Young Men: By James Fordyce, D.D. ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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... worth , partly to warn it against the mischiefs to which it is most exposed in a ftate of public manners highly corrupt and feducing , was my chief endeavour . Fam under little apprehenfion , that those who join liberality of fentiment ...
... worth , partly to warn it against the mischiefs to which it is most exposed in a ftate of public manners highly corrupt and feducing , was my chief endeavour . Fam under little apprehenfion , that those who join liberality of fentiment ...
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... would fug- geft , that the world is not worth the mending . Superstition would , with dole- ful accent , doom all but a handful to inevitable deftruction : and Bigotry would • affert , with a fierce air and peremptory tone C 3 ADDRESS I.
... would fug- geft , that the world is not worth the mending . Superstition would , with dole- ful accent , doom all but a handful to inevitable deftruction : and Bigotry would • affert , with a fierce air and peremptory tone C 3 ADDRESS I.
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... worth which they have not the refolution to court , fighing , if we may fo fpeak , in the bofom of infamy , for thofe attractions of excellence and honour , which they are confcious they shall never poffefs ! Such are always their own ...
... worth which they have not the refolution to court , fighing , if we may fo fpeak , in the bofom of infamy , for thofe attractions of excellence and honour , which they are confcious they shall never poffefs ! Such are always their own ...
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... worth ftands at- tested in a manner altogether extraordi- nary . The Almighty himself we find speaking of it in a style of exultation , if the phrafe may be allowed ; for thus he is introduced addreffing the Enemy of all goodness ...
... worth ftands at- tested in a manner altogether extraordi- nary . The Almighty himself we find speaking of it in a style of exultation , if the phrafe may be allowed ; for thus he is introduced addreffing the Enemy of all goodness ...
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... worth . -With regard to adulation ; how empty a thing , when the Heart speaks a different language ! What were the careffes of thousands , if confcience fhould chaftife , or reafon condemn ? The effects of guilt are only divided from it ...
... worth . -With regard to adulation ; how empty a thing , when the Heart speaks a different language ! What were the careffes of thousands , if confcience fhould chaftife , or reafon condemn ? The effects of guilt are only divided from it ...
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Página 41 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página 61 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil...
Página 178 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Página 109 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 238 - But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning...
Página 238 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
Página 194 - And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
Página 82 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Página 193 - And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
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