The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volym 21801 |
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OF THE NUMB . SECOND VOLUM É . 54 A death - bed the true school of wisdom . The effects of death upon the furvivors . 55 The gay widow's impatience of the growth of her daughter . The history of miss May - pole . 56 The neceffity of ...
OF THE NUMB . SECOND VOLUM É . 54 A death - bed the true school of wisdom . The effects of death upon the furvivors . 55 The gay widow's impatience of the growth of her daughter . The history of miss May - pole . 56 The neceffity of ...
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... death . Whoever would know how much piety and virtue furpass all external goods , might here have seen them weighed against each other , where all that gives motion to the active , and elevation to the eminent , all that sparkles in the ...
... death . Whoever would know how much piety and virtue furpass all external goods , might here have seen them weighed against each other , where all that gives motion to the active , and elevation to the eminent , all that sparkles in the ...
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... death produces , in those who are not wholly without the power and use of reflection ; for by far the greater part it is wholly unregarded , their friends and their enemies fink into the grave without raifing any uncommon emotion , or ...
... death produces , in those who are not wholly without the power and use of reflection ; for by far the greater part it is wholly unregarded , their friends and their enemies fink into the grave without raifing any uncommon emotion , or ...
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... death of one whom we have injured without reparation . Our crime feems now irretrievable , it is indelibly recorded , and the ftamp of fate is fixed upon it . We confider , with the most afflictive anguish , the pain which we have given ...
... death of one whom we have injured without reparation . Our crime feems now irretrievable , it is indelibly recorded , and the ftamp of fate is fixed upon it . We confider , with the most afflictive anguish , the pain which we have given ...
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... death that comes but flow , Now thou art stepping down below ; Sport not amongst the blooming maids , But think on ghosts and empty fhades : What fuits with Pholoe in her bloom , Gray Chloris , will not thee become ; A bed is different ...
... death that comes but flow , Now thou art stepping down below ; Sport not amongst the blooming maids , But think on ghosts and empty fhades : What fuits with Pholoe in her bloom , Gray Chloris , will not thee become ; A bed is different ...
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Sida 197 - God made thee of choice his own, and of his own To serve him; thy reward was of his grace; Thy punishment then justly is at his will. Be...
Sida 208 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Sida 63 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers...
Sida 36 - There are many invisible circumstances which, whether we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge, whether we intend to enlarge our science, or increase our virtue, are more important than publick occurrences.
Sida 184 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Sida 89 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper, and where he finds only new gradations of anguish and precipices of horror.
Sida 65 - ... that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Sida 236 - Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy: I fled and cried out "Death;" Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded "Death.
Sida 21 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Sida 64 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.