Miscellanies: The Tenth VolumeR. Dodsley in Pall-mall., 1745 - 277 pages |
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... fure of Reason which God hath given him ; and indeed he cannot do otherwife if he will be fincere , or act like a Man . For Inftance : If I fhould be commanded by an Angel from Hea- ven to believe it is Midnight at Noon - day ; yet I ...
... fure of Reason which God hath given him ; and indeed he cannot do otherwife if he will be fincere , or act like a Man . For Inftance : If I fhould be commanded by an Angel from Hea- ven to believe it is Midnight at Noon - day ; yet I ...
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... fure to be rewarded for ever in Heaven for his Victory over them . Faith , fays the Apostle , is the Evidence of Things not feen : He means , that Faith is a Virtue by which any thing com- manded us by God to believe , appears evident ...
... fure to be rewarded for ever in Heaven for his Victory over them . Faith , fays the Apostle , is the Evidence of Things not feen : He means , that Faith is a Virtue by which any thing com- manded us by God to believe , appears evident ...
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... have endeavoured to put this Doctrine upon a fhort and fure Foot , levelled to the meaneft Understanding ; by which we may , as the Apoftle directs , be ready always to give an Answer to every Man that asketh us a give 18 . On the TRINITY .
... have endeavoured to put this Doctrine upon a fhort and fure Foot , levelled to the meaneft Understanding ; by which we may , as the Apoftle directs , be ready always to give an Answer to every Man that asketh us a give 18 . On the TRINITY .
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... fure generally understood : How- ever , because it is likewife a Word extreamly abufed by many People , who apply other D 4 Mean- Meanings to it , which God Almighty never intended ; ( 39 ) On the Teftimony of Confcience A Sermon.
... fure generally understood : How- ever , because it is likewife a Word extreamly abufed by many People , who apply other D 4 Mean- Meanings to it , which God Almighty never intended ; ( 39 ) On the Teftimony of Confcience A Sermon.
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... fubdue and defpife all the Allurements of the World . It may here be objected , If Confcience be fo fure a Director to us Chriftians in the Con- E duct • duct of our Lives , how comes it to On the Teftimony of Confcience . 49.
... fubdue and defpife all the Allurements of the World . It may here be objected , If Confcience be fo fure a Director to us Chriftians in the Con- E duct • duct of our Lives , how comes it to On the Teftimony of Confcience . 49.
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Page 185 - The greatest scorn of learned vanity ! (And then how much a nothing is mankind! Whose reason is weigh'd down by popular air, Who, by that, vainly talks of baffling death; And hopes to lengthen life by a transfusion of breath, Which yet whoe'er examines right will find To be an art as vain as bottling up of wind...
Page 86 - Therefore sit down and be quiet, and mind your business as you should do, and contract your friendships, and expect no more from man than such an animal is capable of, and you will every day find my description of Yahoos more resembling.* You should think and deal with every man as a villain, without calling him so, or flying from him, or valuing him less. This is an old true lesson.
Page 23 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 99 - I could not behave myself tolerably, and should redouble her sorrow. Judge in what a temper of mind I write this. The very time I am writing, I conclude the fairest soul in the world hath left its body.
Page 5 - It must be allowed, that every man is bound to follow the rules and directions of that measure of reason which God hath given him ; and indeed he cannot do otherwise, if he will be sincere, or act like a man.
Page 64 - ... my friend the Dean, who is properly the author of the Dunciad : it had never been writ but at his request, and for his deafness ; for had he been able to converse with me, do you think I had amused my time so ill...
Page 235 - Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them ; as he, who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied...
Page 235 - Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. This I once said to my lord Bolingbroke, and desired he would observe, that the clerks in his office used a sort of ivory knife with a blunt edge to divide a sheet of paper, which never failed to cut it even, only requiring a...
Page 191 - How ftrange a paradox is true, That men who liv'd and dy'd without a name Are the chief heroes in the facred lift of Fame.
Page 10 - And all this is highly reasonable : for faith is an entire dependence upon the truth, the power, the justice, and the mercy of God ; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey him in all things.