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... happiness his being is capable of , and such things as eye hath not seen nor ear heard , nor can now enter into the heart of man to conceive . ' The visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of ...
... happiness his being is capable of , and such things as eye hath not seen nor ear heard , nor can now enter into the heart of man to conceive . ' The visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of ...
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... happiness : happiness is the rule , misery the excep- tion . Were the order reversed , our attention would be called to examples of health and competency , instead of disease and want . " One great cause of our insensibility to the good ...
... happiness : happiness is the rule , misery the excep- tion . Were the order reversed , our attention would be called to examples of health and competency , instead of disease and want . " One great cause of our insensibility to the good ...
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... happiness , of the great bulk and body of our species as well as of ourselves . ' One consideration has always afforded me great satisfaction . Did natural evil prevail in reality as much as it does in appearance , we must expect that ...
... happiness , of the great bulk and body of our species as well as of ourselves . ' One consideration has always afforded me great satisfaction . Did natural evil prevail in reality as much as it does in appearance , we must expect that ...
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... happiness must spring , agreeably to 1 Cor . xi . 19.3 For if we believe God to be the Author of things , it is rational to conceive that he may have made them commensurate rather to his own designs in them , than to the notions we men ...
... happiness must spring , agreeably to 1 Cor . xi . 19.3 For if we believe God to be the Author of things , it is rational to conceive that he may have made them commensurate rather to his own designs in them , than to the notions we men ...
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... happiest place.3 Human nature was certainly made for greater things than the enjoyments of sense . * We have reason ... happiness here . . . . . The great end of living in this world is to be happy in the next ; and there- fore we must ...
... happiest place.3 Human nature was certainly made for greater things than the enjoyments of sense . * We have reason ... happiness here . . . . . The great end of living in this world is to be happy in the next ; and there- fore we must ...
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Page 289 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 213 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 276 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 281 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 218 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 98 - Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 110 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 213 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 213 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 258 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will...