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... blessing or mis- fortune . A lap - dog has broke the hearts of thousands . Flavia , who had buried five children , and two husbands , was never able to get over the loss of her parrot . How ... blessings , and JUPITER AND THE DESTINIES .
... blessing or mis- fortune . A lap - dog has broke the hearts of thousands . Flavia , who had buried five children , and two husbands , was never able to get over the loss of her parrot . How ... blessings , and JUPITER AND THE DESTINIES .
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... blessings , and the other with all the calamities , of human life . Jupiter , in the beginning of his reign , finding the 20 world much more innocent than it is in this iron age , poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his ...
... blessings , and the other with all the calamities , of human life . Jupiter , in the beginning of his reign , finding the 20 world much more innocent than it is in this iron age , poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his ...
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... blessings had degene- rated into calamities , and that several calamities had im- proved into blessings , according as they fell into the possession of wise or foolish men . They often found power with so much insolence and impatience ...
... blessings had degene- rated into calamities , and that several calamities had im- proved into blessings , according as they fell into the possession of wise or foolish men . They often found power with so much insolence and impatience ...
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... blessings and calamities together into one large vessel , and in that manner offer them up at the feet of Jupiter . This was performed accordingly , the eldest sister present- ing herself before the vessel , and introducing it with an ...
... blessings and calamities together into one large vessel , and in that manner offer them up at the feet of Jupiter . This was performed accordingly , the eldest sister present- ing herself before the vessel , and introducing it with an ...
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... blessing of life , next to a clear judgment and a good conscience . In the mean time , since there are very few whose minds are not more or less subject to these dreadful thoughts and apprehensions , we ought to arm ourselves against ...
... blessing of life , next to a clear judgment and a good conscience . In the mean time , since there are very few whose minds are not more or less subject to these dreadful thoughts and apprehensions , we ought to arm ourselves against ...
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Page 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Page 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Page 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Page 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.