Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... promised ourselves fo much advantage , as furnishing a refuge for idlenefs rather than a place for reflection . If vanity and vivacity predominate , we fhall value the loveliest scenery we have been embellishing , rather as means to ...
... promised ourselves fo much advantage , as furnishing a refuge for idlenefs rather than a place for reflection . If vanity and vivacity predominate , we fhall value the loveliest scenery we have been embellishing , rather as means to ...
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... promised en- joyment ; his ample park yielded him no gra- tification but what it had yielded him in town , without the present drawback ; there he had partaken of its venifon without the incum- brance of its folitude . His Hamadryads ...
... promised en- joyment ; his ample park yielded him no gra- tification but what it had yielded him in town , without the present drawback ; there he had partaken of its venifon without the incum- brance of its folitude . His Hamadryads ...
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... promise of fome day escaping from it ; but when we sit down in our retreat , unprovided with the well - chofen materials of which true enjoyment is alone compounded , or without propofing to de- dicate our retirement to the obtaining ...
... promise of fome day escaping from it ; but when we sit down in our retreat , unprovided with the well - chofen materials of which true enjoyment is alone compounded , or without propofing to de- dicate our retirement to the obtaining ...
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... promised ourfelves fo much , has produced no change , except from the idlenefs of tumult to that of ennui in one fex , and from levity to apathy in the other . The active life which we had promised to turn into contemplative life is no ...
... promised ourfelves fo much , has produced no change , except from the idlenefs of tumult to that of ennui in one fex , and from levity to apathy in the other . The active life which we had promised to turn into contemplative life is no ...
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... promised to all who feek them , we may find tranquillity in Cheapfide ; with- out them , we may live a life of tumult on the Eddystone . Thofe who are more converfant with poetic than pious compofition ; who have fed their fancy with ...
... promised to all who feek them , we may find tranquillity in Cheapfide ; with- out them , we may live a life of tumult on the Eddystone . Thofe who are more converfant with poetic than pious compofition ; who have fed their fancy with ...
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Page 276 - God, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers ; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace...
Page 276 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live . according to thy will ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 211 - Preacher himself had sometimes forgotten, that the whole duty of man is to fear God, and keep his commandments...
Page 56 - talk of the words" which were commanded under that dispensation, •wken they sit in their house, and •when they walk by the way, and when they lie down, and when they rise up.