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... truth , and need no comment . " The very confiderable incomes of too many , ferve only to administer to their ambition , and whilft they daily taste the deli- cious repast , raife their oppreffive hands , and endeavour to take from ...
... truth , and need no comment . " The very confiderable incomes of too many , ferve only to administer to their ambition , and whilft they daily taste the deli- cious repast , raife their oppreffive hands , and endeavour to take from ...
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... truth than inclination . The volume we fpeak of contains , befide the Hiftoire , thirty - fix memoirs or effays on different fubjects ; we fhall juft give a fhort account of fuch as we think moft worthy the attention of our readers . Mr ...
... truth than inclination . The volume we fpeak of contains , befide the Hiftoire , thirty - fix memoirs or effays on different fubjects ; we fhall juft give a fhort account of fuch as we think moft worthy the attention of our readers . Mr ...
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... truth and honour . What an amazing contrast between those barbarians and our very civilized friends ? The Abbé Fortis quotes many inftances of their fuperfti- tious credulity ; he has alfo minutely described their domeftic manners ...
... truth and honour . What an amazing contrast between those barbarians and our very civilized friends ? The Abbé Fortis quotes many inftances of their fuperfti- tious credulity ; he has alfo minutely described their domeftic manners ...
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... truth ; the following may be depended upon : In the year 1761 , when the English flest lay at Belleifle , on the coaft of France , the men in his Majefty's fhips were preserved from the fcurvy by the feasonable fupplies of greens fent ...
... truth ; the following may be depended upon : In the year 1761 , when the English flest lay at Belleifle , on the coaft of France , the men in his Majefty's fhips were preserved from the fcurvy by the feasonable fupplies of greens fent ...
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... truths afferted in the di- vine volume . For fo conclufive are the arguments , and fo convincing the evidence relative to the nativity , life , death , refurrection , and afcenfion of our bleffed Lord and Saviour , that the reality of ...
... truths afferted in the di- vine volume . For fo conclufive are the arguments , and fo convincing the evidence relative to the nativity , life , death , refurrection , and afcenfion of our bleffed Lord and Saviour , that the reality of ...
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Page 344 - The Lord looketh from heaven ; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 140 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose, attended with no pain ; Without satiety...
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Page 87 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 140 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 176 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
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