New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, 第 1 卷C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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第 ii 頁
... Fear of Death ....... Chalmers . 126 ...... Johnson . 129 The Mutability of Human Life ............. Logan . 132 The Necessity of Purity of Manners..Bp . Porteus . 133 The Infamy of Slander ............ Sterne . 136 Page On the Origin ...
... Fear of Death ....... Chalmers . 126 ...... Johnson . 129 The Mutability of Human Life ............. Logan . 132 The Necessity of Purity of Manners..Bp . Porteus . 133 The Infamy of Slander ............ Sterne . 136 Page On the Origin ...
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... fears : for suppose he confined his goodness to a few , without any reasonable cause or just ground , and we could be so whimsically partial to ourselves as to conceit that we were of this select number ; yet there could be no security ...
... fears : for suppose he confined his goodness to a few , without any reasonable cause or just ground , and we could be so whimsically partial to ourselves as to conceit that we were of this select number ; yet there could be no security ...
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... far above all the fictions of Mahomet , is that awful alternative of hopes and fears , that looking for of judgment , which our Christian faith sets before us . At that day when time , the great arbiter of 40 P. I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... far above all the fictions of Mahomet , is that awful alternative of hopes and fears , that looking for of judgment , which our Christian faith sets before us . At that day when time , the great arbiter of 40 P. I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
第 48 頁
... fear mingled with hope , but atheism , while it excludes hope , affords a very imperfect security against fear . Superstition is never exposed to the dreary vacui- ties in the soul over which atheism is wont to brood in solitude and ...
... fear mingled with hope , but atheism , while it excludes hope , affords a very imperfect security against fear . Superstition is never exposed to the dreary vacui- ties in the soul over which atheism is wont to brood in solitude and ...
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... fear of death . Honour has defied death ; love has despised it ; shame has rushed upon it ; revenge has disregarded it ; grief a thousand times has wished for its approach . Is it not strange that reason and virtue cannot give you ...
... fear of death . Honour has defied death ; love has despised it ; shame has rushed upon it ; revenge has disregarded it ; grief a thousand times has wished for its approach . Is it not strange that reason and virtue cannot give you ...
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第 146 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 102 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 72 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 33 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 262 頁 - ... and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
第 147 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.
第 261 頁 - ... side, or the fruits that hung upon the branches. At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with water-falls.
第 247 頁 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
第 148 頁 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
第 127 頁 - ... insecurity which make the protection of the Almighty so dear to us, and bring with such emphasis to every pious bosom the holy lessons of humility and gratitude. The God who sitteth above, and presides in high authority over all worlds, is mindful of man ; and though at this moment his energy is felt in the remotest provinces of creation, we may feel the same security in his providence, as if we were the objects of his undivided care. It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious...