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... interest , gracefulness , and beauty , -I mean a lady mounted on an ambling palfrey . The philosopher and the gentleman must bow their diminished heads be- fore such an aspiring object . I re- member the first time I saw the lovely Mon ...
... interest , gracefulness , and beauty , -I mean a lady mounted on an ambling palfrey . The philosopher and the gentleman must bow their diminished heads be- fore such an aspiring object . I re- member the first time I saw the lovely Mon ...
Side 22
... interest and anima- tion to his description , he had a tem- pest at his command for the accom- plishment of his purposes . These objections , it will readily appear , are founded on the belief that the island of Circe was situated on ...
... interest and anima- tion to his description , he had a tem- pest at his command for the accom- plishment of his purposes . These objections , it will readily appear , are founded on the belief that the island of Circe was situated on ...
Side 49
... interest in me having made me a present of a little book , I thought myself compelled in honour to learn her book well , and by so do- ing , prepared myself unconsciously for the reading of the New Testa- ment . Still , however , my ...
... interest in me having made me a present of a little book , I thought myself compelled in honour to learn her book well , and by so do- ing , prepared myself unconsciously for the reading of the New Testa- ment . Still , however , my ...
Side 71
... interest , John ? John - Why , they ha'e the poor to maintain , which now , in our pa- rish , is nae light burden ... interests , I clearly see , are a ' against us ; yet folk dinna always act according to their interests . In a ...
... interest , John ? John - Why , they ha'e the poor to maintain , which now , in our pa- rish , is nae light burden ... interests , I clearly see , are a ' against us ; yet folk dinna always act according to their interests . In a ...
Side 72
... interest it was to wheedle them owre to his ain fold , that he may feed daintily on them ? Thomas . I wou'd count him an unfaithfu ' shepherd , -betraying the flock that was entrusted to him by his master , and being art and part wi ...
... interest it was to wheedle them owre to his ain fold , that he may feed daintily on them ? Thomas . I wou'd count him an unfaithfu ' shepherd , -betraying the flock that was entrusted to him by his master , and being art and part wi ...
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Side 69 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Side 579 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Side 579 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Side 134 - 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...
Side 434 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Side 429 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Side 572 - ... those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Side 579 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Side 97 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
Side 300 - tis holy ground ! II. From yonder realms of empyrean day Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay : There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom Genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.