The Posthumous Works ...T. and T. Longman, 1754 - 336 pages |
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... Things . SECT . IX . A Guard fet on the Sports and Diverfions of Children . 166 171 SECT . X. Of the proper Degrees of Liber- ty and Refraint in the Education of a Son , illuftrated by Example . 200 SECT . XI . Of the proper Degrees of ...
... Things . SECT . IX . A Guard fet on the Sports and Diverfions of Children . 166 171 SECT . X. Of the proper Degrees of Liber- ty and Refraint in the Education of a Son , illuftrated by Example . 200 SECT . XI . Of the proper Degrees of ...
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... thing , they learn nothing to Per- fection . In those who have too little , it fhould be excited , left they grow ... Things too fublime and difficult from the bumble , modeft and fearful Difcipline : And where fuch a one gives a juft ...
... thing , they learn nothing to Per- fection . In those who have too little , it fhould be excited , left they grow ... Things too fublime and difficult from the bumble , modeft and fearful Difcipline : And where fuch a one gives a juft ...
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... Things : The Bufinefs of Poefy is to ftrike the Soul with a glaring Light , and to urge the Paffions into a Flame by fplendid Shews , by strong Images , and a pathetic Vehe- mence 1 mence of Style ; but ' tis another Sort of 16 PART II ...
... Things : The Bufinefs of Poefy is to ftrike the Soul with a glaring Light , and to urge the Paffions into a Flame by fplendid Shews , by strong Images , and a pathetic Vehe- mence 1 mence of Style ; but ' tis another Sort of 16 PART II ...
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... Things . IV . THERE is a mean vulgar Style , borrowed from the lower Ranks of Mankind , the bafeft Characters and meanest Affairs of Life : This is alfo to be avoided ; for it should be fuppofed , that Perfons of a liberal Education ...
... Things . IV . THERE is a mean vulgar Style , borrowed from the lower Ranks of Mankind , the bafeft Characters and meanest Affairs of Life : This is alfo to be avoided ; for it should be fuppofed , that Perfons of a liberal Education ...
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... Things . 3. BE well skill'd in the Language which you Speak ; acquaint yourself with all the Iidoms and fpecial Phrafes of it , which are neceflary to convey the needful Ideas on the Subject of which you treat , in the most va- rious ...
... Things . 3. BE well skill'd in the Language which you Speak ; acquaint yourself with all the Iidoms and fpecial Phrafes of it , which are neceflary to convey the needful Ideas on the Subject of which you treat , in the most va- rious ...
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Page 79 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 74 - ... the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 9 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 82 - Then they that gladly received the word were baptized ; and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.
Page 313 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Page 81 - Moreover brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea ; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea...
Page 70 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Page 11 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 7 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 86 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.