Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and VersePrinted: London, Reprinted by J. Phillips, 1787 - 198 էջ |
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... those The garden gives to view in equal rows ; As the pure ftream , whofe mazy train , The prattling pebbles check in vain , Gives native pleasure , while it leads Its random waters swiftly thro ' the meads ; As birds on boughs , in ...
... those The garden gives to view in equal rows ; As the pure ftream , whofe mazy train , The prattling pebbles check in vain , Gives native pleasure , while it leads Its random waters swiftly thro ' the meads ; As birds on boughs , in ...
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... those who are doing you justice . In your pri- vate thoughts diveft yourfelf of it , and return it to God , as the giver of the gift , and the bleffer of the action . Give him unfeigned thanks , for making you an inftru- ment of his ...
... those who are doing you justice . In your pri- vate thoughts diveft yourfelf of it , and return it to God , as the giver of the gift , and the bleffer of the action . Give him unfeigned thanks , for making you an inftru- ment of his ...
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... those he affects to have . He gains more by being contented to be feen as he is , than by at- tempting to appear what he is not . TRUE greatness of foul pays itself , as it were , with its , own hands , by the fatisfaction of doing good ...
... those he affects to have . He gains more by being contented to be feen as he is , than by at- tempting to appear what he is not . TRUE greatness of foul pays itself , as it were , with its , own hands , by the fatisfaction of doing good ...
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... Those that are abfent are deaf ; they cannot right them selves , and therefore fay no ill of them . HAPPY are those who can see the beauty of virtue ! --Is it poffible to fee her , without loving her ? Is it pof- fible to love her ...
... Those that are abfent are deaf ; they cannot right them selves , and therefore fay no ill of them . HAPPY are those who can see the beauty of virtue ! --Is it poffible to fee her , without loving her ? Is it pof- fible to love her ...
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... those that do not choose her , yet approve . TRUE happiness - man's gen'ral aim and end , The point of reft to which our wishes tend , To no externals ever was affign'd , But fix'd the portion of a fteady mind ; A fteady mind , that no ...
... those that do not choose her , yet approve . TRUE happiness - man's gen'ral aim and end , The point of reft to which our wishes tend , To no externals ever was affign'd , But fix'd the portion of a fteady mind ; A fteady mind , that no ...
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Էջ 170 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Էջ 22 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Էջ 141 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Էջ 169 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Էջ 51 - O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Էջ 158 - Then see the sorrows of my heart, Ere yet it be too late ; And hear my Saviour's dying groans, To give those sorrows weight. VI. For never shall my soul despair Her pardon to procure, Who knows thine only Son has died To make her pardon sure.
Էջ 168 - If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Էջ 120 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Էջ 191 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Էջ 157 - IT is of the last importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the cares of the world, the heats of youth, or the allurements of vice, it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion, consideration, age, or misfortunes have brought the man to himself. The fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.