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... expostulation of Job , when for the trial of his patience he was made to look upon himself in this deplorable condition ! Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee , sq 66 that I am become a burden to myself ? " c 3 N 571 . 17 SPECTATOR .
... expostulation of Job , when for the trial of his patience he was made to look upon himself in this deplorable condition ! Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee , sq 66 that I am become a burden to myself ? " c 3 N 571 . 17 SPECTATOR .
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... thou- sand pounds diamond necklace : he said nothing , but went quietly to his chamber , and , as is thought , composed himself with a dose of opium . I behaved myself so well upon the occasion , that to this day I believe he died of an ...
... thou- sand pounds diamond necklace : he said nothing , but went quietly to his chamber , and , as is thought , composed himself with a dose of opium . I behaved myself so well upon the occasion , that to this day I believe he died of an ...
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... thou- sands of years are to the imagination as a kind of eternity , though in reality they do not bear so great a proportion to that duration which is to follow them as an unit does to the greatest number which you can put together in ...
... thou- sands of years are to the imagination as a kind of eternity , though in reality they do not bear so great a proportion to that duration which is to follow them as an unit does to the greatest number which you can put together in ...
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... Thou shalt not commit adultery , ' they printed off several thousand of copies with • Thou shalt commit adultery . ' Archbishop Laud , to punish this their negligence , laid a considerable fine upon that company in the star - chamber ...
... Thou shalt not commit adultery , ' they printed off several thousand of copies with • Thou shalt commit adultery . ' Archbishop Laud , to punish this their negligence , laid a considerable fine upon that company in the star - chamber ...
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... thou daughter of Zilpah , since thou gavest thyself away in marriage to my rival ? I grew weary of the light of the sun , and have since ever been covering myself with woods and forests . These threescore and ten years have I bewailed ...
... thou daughter of Zilpah , since thou gavest thyself away in marriage to my rival ? I grew weary of the light of the sun , and have since ever been covering myself with woods and forests . These threescore and ten years have I bewailed ...
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Page 256 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Page 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Page 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Page 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
Page 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.