New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... produce , in the hands of an evil , or a partial , or malevolent direction , but scenes of horror and devastation ? Not affliction and punishment for the sake of discipline and correction , to prevent the offence or reform the sinner 2 ...
... produce , in the hands of an evil , or a partial , or malevolent direction , but scenes of horror and devastation ? Not affliction and punishment for the sake of discipline and correction , to prevent the offence or reform the sinner 2 ...
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... produced they perish . As he discerns whatever is within us , or above us , or around us , or be- neath us , as wide as immensity itself , without labour , without oversight , and without succession , easily , perfectly , and instantly ...
... produced they perish . As he discerns whatever is within us , or above us , or around us , or be- neath us , as wide as immensity itself , without labour , without oversight , and without succession , easily , perfectly , and instantly ...
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... produced by scenes like these even in uninformed and uncultivated minds . But to the man whom philosophy has taught to penetrate beyond the surface of things , and to discover the principles and laws of nature , the works of God appear ...
... produced by scenes like these even in uninformed and uncultivated minds . But to the man whom philosophy has taught to penetrate beyond the surface of things , and to discover the principles and laws of nature , the works of God appear ...
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... produced by human force or art : at the same time he sees other globes , some less and others much larger than the earth , revolving with inconceivable rapidity round the sun , as their common centre , at distances so great that ...
... produced by human force or art : at the same time he sees other globes , some less and others much larger than the earth , revolving with inconceivable rapidity round the sun , as their common centre , at distances so great that ...
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... produced such beneficial conse- quences . If they say from the cultivation of their minds , the improvement of their understanding , and the extent of their knowledge and erudition , it is then obvious to ask , how it comes to pass that ...
... produced such beneficial conse- quences . If they say from the cultivation of their minds , the improvement of their understanding , and the extent of their knowledge and erudition , it is then obvious to ask , how it comes to pass that ...
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第 147 頁 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
第 103 頁 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
第 73 頁 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
第 148 頁 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
第 34 頁 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
第 75 頁 - ... meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go farthest from the superstition formerly received...
第 223 頁 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest ; he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys, and saw the hills gradually rising before fiim. As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise...
第 226 頁 - At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light ; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude....
第 149 頁 - ... so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. To...
第 148 頁 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.