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Page viii
... reason he has given for so strangely indulging the flights of his own imagination , judicious readers , I believe , will be as much surprized , and as little satisfied , as Monsieur Le Blanc seems to have been , in his criticism on our ...
... reason he has given for so strangely indulging the flights of his own imagination , judicious readers , I believe , will be as much surprized , and as little satisfied , as Monsieur Le Blanc seems to have been , in his criticism on our ...
Page xi
... reason to believe , that Solomon had a just sense of his errors , and heartily repented his past follies : nor can there , I think , be a stronger proof of this , than the Book now before us , which appears , from a variety of striking ...
... reason to believe , that Solomon had a just sense of his errors , and heartily repented his past follies : nor can there , I think , be a stronger proof of this , than the Book now before us , which appears , from a variety of striking ...
Page xvi
... reason and moderation . This , as we before hinted , is the peculiar characteristic of the book of Ecclesiastes , whereby it is dis- tinguished from all other moral discourses ; and this , it must be granted , is a far more effectual ...
... reason and moderation . This , as we before hinted , is the peculiar characteristic of the book of Ecclesiastes , whereby it is dis- tinguished from all other moral discourses ; and this , it must be granted , is a far more effectual ...
Page xx
... Reason : at the same time , he sets before us , in the liveliest colours , the sad effects of Vice and Folly , and makes use of every incentive to engage the heart to be enamour- ed with virtue , and pursue its own interest . Whatever ...
... Reason : at the same time , he sets before us , in the liveliest colours , the sad effects of Vice and Folly , and makes use of every incentive to engage the heart to be enamour- ed with virtue , and pursue its own interest . Whatever ...
Page xxvi
... reason , we ought , t . that there is still a greater propensity to Piety and Virtue among us , persons seem willing to allow . For though it cannot be denied , that we have too many examples of Vice and Irreligion , yet the same re ...
... reason , we ought , t . that there is still a greater propensity to Piety and Virtue among us , persons seem willing to allow . For though it cannot be denied , that we have too many examples of Vice and Irreligion , yet the same re ...
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Page 31 - A time to love, and a time to hate ; A time of war, and a time of peace.
Page 74 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit ; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 46 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 77 - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Page 80 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 46 - KEEP thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 36 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Page 58 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 106 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 47 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.