Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... divine power and wisdom in every object on which he casts his eye . The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence , in the formation of the heavens and the earth ; and these are arguments which a man of sense ...
... divine power and wisdom in every object on which he casts his eye . The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence , in the formation of the heavens and the earth ; and these are arguments which a man of sense ...
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... Divine . » Complete . From the Spectator of August 22d , 1712 . T THE EXTENSION OF THE FEMALE NECK Hoc vos præcipuè , nivea , decet , hoc ubi vidi , Oscula ferre humero , quà patet , usque libet . -Ovid . Ars Amator , Lib . III . 309 ...
... Divine . » Complete . From the Spectator of August 22d , 1712 . T THE EXTENSION OF THE FEMALE NECK Hoc vos præcipuè , nivea , decet , hoc ubi vidi , Oscula ferre humero , quà patet , usque libet . -Ovid . Ars Amator , Lib . III . 309 ...
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... Supreme Being . At the same time that he reflects upon his own weak- ness and imperfection , he comforts himself with the contempla- tion of those Divine attributes which are employed for his 60 JOSEPH ADDISON "Dominus Regit Me.
... Supreme Being . At the same time that he reflects upon his own weak- ness and imperfection , he comforts himself with the contempla- tion of those Divine attributes which are employed for his 60 JOSEPH ADDISON "Dominus Regit Me.
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... Divine attribute , and loses his own insufficiency in the fullness of Infinite Perfection . To make our lives more easy to us , we are commanded to put our trust in him , who is thus able to relieve and succor us ; the Divine Goodness ...
... Divine attribute , and loses his own insufficiency in the fullness of Infinite Perfection . To make our lives more easy to us , we are commanded to put our trust in him , who is thus able to relieve and succor us ; the Divine Goodness ...
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... divine poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it have in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the dimunition of it than if they ...
... divine poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it have in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the dimunition of it than if they ...
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Página 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Página 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Página 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Página 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Página 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Página 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...