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... against the ap- proach of reason , that neither science nor experience can shake it , and we act as if life were without end , though we fee and confefs its uncertainty and fhort- -nefs . Divines have , with great strength and ardour ...
... against the ap- proach of reason , that neither science nor experience can shake it , and we act as if life were without end , though we fee and confefs its uncertainty and fhort- -nefs . Divines have , with great strength and ardour ...
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... against the time when I fhould be rich , to pay their court , by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that the coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that the ...
... against the time when I fhould be rich , to pay their court , by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that the coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that the ...
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... against his own , and eafily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own . hand , and throws in or takes out at his pleasure cir- cumstances that make them heavier or lighter . He then triumphs in his comparative ...
... against his own , and eafily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own . hand , and throws in or takes out at his pleasure cir- cumstances that make them heavier or lighter . He then triumphs in his comparative ...
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... against a ftupid contempt of life , and rafh precipitation into unneceffary danger . Every receffion from temerity is an approach towards cowardice , and though it be confeffed that bravery , like other virtues , ftands be- tween faults ...
... against a ftupid contempt of life , and rafh precipitation into unneceffary danger . Every receffion from temerity is an approach towards cowardice , and though it be confeffed that bravery , like other virtues , ftands be- tween faults ...
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... against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the defire of men , funk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for when no particular circumstances make them de- pendent on others ...
... against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the defire of men , funk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for when no particular circumstances make them de- pendent on others ...
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Page 119 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 440 - He's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame?
Page 150 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Page 149 - Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy: I fled and cried out "Death;" Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded "Death.
Page 196 - ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.
Page 95 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 442 - Commands are no constraints. If I obey them, I do it freely, venturing to displease GOD for the fear of man, and man prefer, Set GOD behind: which in His jealousy Shall never, unrepented, find forgiveness.
Page 405 - The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
Page 439 - And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 198 - ... for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course.