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... SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . JANUARY TO JUNE , MDCCCXXXV . LONDON . JOHN WILLIAM PARKER , 445 , WEST STRAND : SOLD WHOLESALE BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS , AND RETAIL BY ALL BOOKSELLERS ; Hull , Wilson ; Goddard & Manchester ...
... SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . JANUARY TO JUNE , MDCCCXXXV . LONDON . JOHN WILLIAM PARKER , 445 , WEST STRAND : SOLD WHOLESALE BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS , AND RETAIL BY ALL BOOKSELLERS ; Hull , Wilson ; Goddard & Manchester ...
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... Society Islands , 69 Priory - church of St. Botolph , at Col- chester , 199 Progressive Motion in Mau , 243 Proverbs , No. V. , 76 Providence , remark on by a Persian poet , 222 Prudence , value of , 115 Pulque Plant , 128 Quartern Loaf ...
... Society Islands , 69 Priory - church of St. Botolph , at Col- chester , 199 Progressive Motion in Mau , 243 Proverbs , No. V. , 76 Providence , remark on by a Persian poet , 222 Prudence , value of , 115 Pulque Plant , 128 Quartern Loaf ...
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... BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . VOL . VI . Ο 161 HEATH PARKEY The force with which two bodies strike each The quantity. THE LEANING TOWER OF SARAGOSSA . THE FEAT OF BREAKING A STONE ON A MAN'S CHEST ...
... BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . VOL . VI . Ο 161 HEATH PARKEY The force with which two bodies strike each The quantity. THE LEANING TOWER OF SARAGOSSA . THE FEAT OF BREAKING A STONE ON A MAN'S CHEST ...
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... society in every period of history ; with the wisest , the wittiest , with the tenderest , the bravest , and the purest characters who have adorned humanity . You make him a denizen of all nations - a contemporary of all ages . The ...
... society in every period of history ; with the wisest , the wittiest , with the tenderest , the bravest , and the purest characters who have adorned humanity . You make him a denizen of all nations - a contemporary of all ages . The ...
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... THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . VOL VI . 162 THE FALLS OF NIAGARA , AS SEEN FROM THE TABLE - ROCK . VOL , VI . Saturday THE ANERAI • OF GENER. THE ...
... THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE . VOL VI . 162 THE FALLS OF NIAGARA , AS SEEN FROM THE TABLE - ROCK . VOL , VI . Saturday THE ANERAI • OF GENER. THE ...
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Page 14 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be' as Poor Richard says, 'the greatest prodigality;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Page 14 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, diligence is the mother of good luck, as Poor Richard says, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick.
Page 14 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor," as poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve ; for, " at the working man's house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 141 - Paul's ministry, shall be his hope, and joy, and crown of rejoicing "in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming
Page 233 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Page 14 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 6 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 225 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Page 192 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 76 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.