The Bioscope, Or Dial of Life: Explained. To which is Added, a Translation of St. Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, on the Rule of Christian Life: and an Elementary View of General Chronology |
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... remain stationary while the years proceed ; and the inevitable consequence must be , first , disunion , and afterwards , a continually in- creasing distance and disparity , between the two . It is , therefore , of the last import- ance ...
... remain stationary while the years proceed ; and the inevitable consequence must be , first , disunion , and afterwards , a continually in- creasing distance and disparity , between the two . It is , therefore , of the last import- ance ...
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... to know how " to remain ignorant . I don't know , ' ought " to be a frequent answer of all teachers " to their pupils , to accustom them to E Youth . " make the same answer , without feeling THE BIOSCOPE EXPLAINED . 73.
... to know how " to remain ignorant . I don't know , ' ought " to be a frequent answer of all teachers " to their pupils , to accustom them to E Youth . " make the same answer , without feeling THE BIOSCOPE EXPLAINED . 73.
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... remain here , under our discipline of trial . 71. We next come to consider , the MID- Middle - Age . DLE AGES of life ; which consideration opens to us a delicate task . For , what ages are we to comprehend under that denomination ...
... remain here , under our discipline of trial . 71. We next come to consider , the MID- Middle - Age . DLE AGES of life ; which consideration opens to us a delicate task . For , what ages are we to comprehend under that denomination ...
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... the critical stage at which it is arrived . For , although half of life , more or less , may possibly remain , yet half of it is certainly exhausted ; and Middle - Age . the second half will appear to THE BIOSCOPE EXPLAINED . 93.
... the critical stage at which it is arrived . For , although half of life , more or less , may possibly remain , yet half of it is certainly exhausted ; and Middle - Age . the second half will appear to THE BIOSCOPE EXPLAINED . 93.
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... remain under circumstances wholly and essentially new ? Especially , when we have it in our power to gain so much de- lightful information respecting that country ; and to secure so safe a journey to it , and so favourable a reception ...
... remain under circumstances wholly and essentially new ? Especially , when we have it in our power to gain so much de- lightful information respecting that country ; and to secure so safe a journey to it , and so favourable a reception ...
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1st PERIOD 2d Period 5th PERIOD acquire ANCIENT HISTORY apostle average measure beginning Bioscope Bishop blessed called Charlemagne CHRIST Christian Chronology Church Cicero commandments Commencement common computation contemplate Croesus death dial Dionysian Dionysian cycle divided divine Easter-day Egypt Emperor epact epocha established eternal evil exercise FRENCH EMPIRE Gospel Greek habit happiness hath HEAD of ROMAN heart heathen Heaven Hebrew Heracles holy honour human journey Julian period Julius Cæsar King of England King of France labour live Lord lunar cycle ment Middle-Age mind MODERN HISTORY moon moral agents nature object ourselves Paulinus perfect Pope Gregory XIII present progress prophet prospect reason reckoning reflect religion rendered righteousness ROMAN EMPIRE Romanus II Rome rule SACRED Saracens says sensible SEVENTY solar soul Sunday Letter Sunday-letter things thou thoughts tion truth unto vice virtue wise youth
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Page 69 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 225 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 69 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 134 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Page 228 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 231 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 97 - So went on, Foretelling this same time's condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Page 142 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bug-bears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 200 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness ? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Page 229 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.