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... God , whatever hardships can befal in the world ; not in any great attempts , or in performance of those enterprizes which the poets call heroic , and which are com- monly the effects of interest , ostentation , pride , and worldly ...
... God , whatever hardships can befal in the world ; not in any great attempts , or in performance of those enterprizes which the poets call heroic , and which are com- monly the effects of interest , ostentation , pride , and worldly ...
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... God's name , about her business , and makes her know the difference of strength be- twixt a nuncio of heaven , and a minister of hell . The same angel , in the latter instance from Tasso , ( as if God had never another messenger ...
... God's name , about her business , and makes her know the difference of strength be- twixt a nuncio of heaven , and a minister of hell . The same angel , in the latter instance from Tasso , ( as if God had never another messenger ...
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... gods , which were only received for truths by the most ignorant and weakest of the people . * * The passages of ... God , thy words were heard , and I am come for thy words . But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one ...
... gods , which were only received for truths by the most ignorant and weakest of the people . * * The passages of ... God , thy words were heard , and I am come for thy words . But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one ...
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... God's honour , and the benefit of his people , that the Median and Persian monarchy , which de- livered them from the Babylonish captivity , should still be uppermost ; and the patron of the Grecians , to whom the will of God might be ...
... God's honour , and the benefit of his people , that the Median and Persian monarchy , which de- livered them from the Babylonish captivity , should still be uppermost ; and the patron of the Grecians , to whom the will of God might be ...
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... God of acting ill , as , from their own depraved nature , they have always the will of designing it . A great testimony of which we find in holy writ , when God Almighty suffered Satan to appear in the holy synod of the angels ESSAY ON ...
... God of acting ill , as , from their own depraved nature , they have always the will of designing it . A great testimony of which we find in holy writ , when God Almighty suffered Satan to appear in the holy synod of the angels ESSAY ON ...
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.