The Doctor, &c, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 694 pages |
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... never counted among my honours these opuscula of mine , but merely as harmless amuse- ments . It is my partridge , as with St. John ; my cat , as with Pope St. Gregory ; my little dog , as with St. Dominic ; my lamb , as with St ...
... never counted among my honours these opuscula of mine , but merely as harmless amuse- ments . It is my partridge , as with St. John ; my cat , as with Pope St. Gregory ; my little dog , as with St. Dominic ; my lamb , as with St ...
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... never oc- curred to him that any thing would be printed which was not worth printing , any thing which did not convey either reasonable delight or useful instruction : and he was no more disposed to doubt the truth of what he read ...
... never oc- curred to him that any thing would be printed which was not worth printing , any thing which did not convey either reasonable delight or useful instruction : and he was no more disposed to doubt the truth of what he read ...
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... never ex- perienced on any other occasion . But the Author in whom he delighted most was Plutarch , of whose works he was lucky enough to possess the worthier half : if the other had perished Plutarch would not have been a popular ...
... never ex- perienced on any other occasion . But the Author in whom he delighted most was Plutarch , of whose works he was lucky enough to possess the worthier half : if the other had perished Plutarch would not have been a popular ...
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... never enjoyed , the desire of progeny is natural to the heart of man ; and though Daniel had neither large estates ... Never pale Envy's poisony heads do hiss To gnaw his heart : nor Vulture Avarice : His fields ' bounds , bound his ...
... never enjoyed , the desire of progeny is natural to the heart of man ; and though Daniel had neither large estates ... Never pale Envy's poisony heads do hiss To gnaw his heart : nor Vulture Avarice : His fields ' bounds , bound his ...
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... never to have experienced , and therefore never to stand in fear of severity or unkindness . For he was not more a favourite with Guy for his docility , and regularity and diligence , than he was with his schoolfellows for his thorough ...
... never to have experienced , and therefore never to stand in fear of severity or unkindness . For he was not more a favourite with Guy for his docility , and regularity and diligence , than he was with his schoolfellows for his thorough ...
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Page 457 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 480 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath, shall be given: and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 458 - They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 209 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Page 221 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 257 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Page 51 - MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 340 - The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
Page 555 - Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Page 232 - I am to be gathered unto my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.