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... person whofe name they bear , and fince continued in every edition of his Works . See vol . II . 1778 , p . 157. ) which was originally published about 1683 , under the title of An Exclamation against Julian , Secretary of the Muses ...
... person whofe name they bear , and fince continued in every edition of his Works . See vol . II . 1778 , p . 157. ) which was originally published about 1683 , under the title of An Exclamation against Julian , Secretary of the Muses ...
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... person , the year of his death , and fome pious fentence . For example : This Epitaph Is placed for Minka Artfof , in the 1112th Year . + Every man is mortal : God only is eternal . The Prophet faith , He that worships God , and ...
... person , the year of his death , and fome pious fentence . For example : This Epitaph Is placed for Minka Artfof , in the 1112th Year . + Every man is mortal : God only is eternal . The Prophet faith , He that worships God , and ...
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... persons is not formed on the true and juft ftandard of nature ; and their imaginations , in comparing themselves with others , find no re- femblance It is therefore they fly out of life for fentimental ex- ercifes and gratifications ...
... persons is not formed on the true and juft ftandard of nature ; and their imaginations , in comparing themselves with others , find no re- femblance It is therefore they fly out of life for fentimental ex- ercifes and gratifications ...
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... person around him . I fhall not defire him to confider , that in the gulph of oblivion , where all human memorials are fwallowed up , his name and fame must foon be inevitably loft . He may imagine that ample honours re- main to gratify ...
... person around him . I fhall not defire him to confider , that in the gulph of oblivion , where all human memorials are fwallowed up , his name and fame must foon be inevitably loft . He may imagine that ample honours re- main to gratify ...
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... person who is in the leaft acquainted with hiftory , that Scotland has never been conquered . The country has been often invaded , and its armies have been fometimes defeated , but it never yet has fubmitted to a foreign yoke . " To ...
... person who is in the leaft acquainted with hiftory , that Scotland has never been conquered . The country has been often invaded , and its armies have been fometimes defeated , but it never yet has fubmitted to a foreign yoke . " To ...
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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...
Page 416 - Henries — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuity and melancholy succession of chill and comfortless chambers.
Page 269 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste...
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.
Page 269 - ... his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet...
Page 177 - And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name ; therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.
Page 311 - Thus every one of those principalities has the apparatus of a kingdom, for the jurisdiction over a few private estates ; and the formality and charge of the exchequer of Great Britain, for collecting the rents of a country squire.