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... derived from the compleatest education . For half of what we learn in youth is foon loft in oblivion ; and ferves only for the exercise and improvement of our capacities . capacities . So limited indeed are the powers of memory.
... derived from the compleatest education . For half of what we learn in youth is foon loft in oblivion ; and ferves only for the exercise and improvement of our capacities . capacities . So limited indeed are the powers of memory.
Էջ xv
Thomas Percival. capacities . So limited indeed are the powers of memory , that every man of letters may apply to himself ... powers of imagination , and would produce the happy talent of relating familiar familiar and trivial occurrences ...
Thomas Percival. capacities . So limited indeed are the powers of memory , that every man of letters may apply to himself ... powers of imagination , and would produce the happy talent of relating familiar familiar and trivial occurrences ...
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... powers of body and mind , as give you dominion over the fishes of the fea , the fowls of the air , and the beafts of the field : And he has invited you to hold communion with him , and to exalt your own nature , by the love and ...
... powers of body and mind , as give you dominion over the fishes of the fea , the fowls of the air , and the beafts of the field : And he has invited you to hold communion with him , and to exalt your own nature , by the love and ...
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... power is exerted to punish the guilty , to protect the innocent , to reward the good , and to dif- tribute justice with an equal hand to all . I feel the affection of a brother for Eugenio ; and esteem myself fingularly happy in his ...
... power is exerted to punish the guilty , to protect the innocent , to reward the good , and to dif- tribute justice with an equal hand to all . I feel the affection of a brother for Eugenio ; and esteem myself fingularly happy in his ...
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Thomas Percival. profperous incident of life . The partial interpofition of fovereign wisdom and power is prefumed , without hesitation ; and we have the folly and vanity to believe that the order of nature is disturbed , for our benefit ...
Thomas Percival. profperous incident of life . The partial interpofition of fovereign wisdom and power is prefumed , without hesitation ; and we have the folly and vanity to believe that the order of nature is disturbed , for our benefit ...
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Էջ 142 - And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Էջ 142 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone ; if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Էջ 142 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Էջ 142 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Էջ 142 - Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way : and thus did he unto them.
Էջ 145 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.
Էջ 145 - And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Էջ xxiv - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Էջ 93 - I'll lay my life the thing is blue." "And I'll be sworn, that when you've seen The reptile, you'll pronounce him green." "Well, then, at once to ease the doubt," Replies the man, "I'll turn him out; And when before your eyes I've set him, If you don't find him black, I'll eat him...
Էջ 12 - Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road ; For plenty there a residence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the...