Miscellaneous Extracts and Fragments, on Interesting and Instructive Subjects: Chiefly from Works at Present Out of Print : Including Some Account of the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, and Anecdotes of Eminent Men Connected Therewith

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Whittaker, Treacher, 1839
 

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Sida 111 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Sida 62 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
Sida 76 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Sida 327 - ... grew daily more peevish, more irascible, and more impatient of contradiction. Having lived to be a witness of his own amazing success ; to see a great part of Europe embrace his doctrines ; and to shake the foundation of the papal throne, before which the mightiest monarchs had trembled, he discovered, on some occasions, symptoms of vanity and self-applause. He must have been, indeed, more than man, if, upon contemplating all that he actually accomplished, he had never felt any sentiment of this...
Sida 276 - York is from Lambeth sent, to shew the queen A dangerous treatise^; writ against the spleen ; Which, by the style, the matter, and the drift, 'Tis thought could be the work of none but Swift. Poor York ! the harmless tool of others' hate ; He sues for pardon,* and repents too late.
Sida 79 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave, And died.
Sida 309 - Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of Hosts.
Sida 79 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Sida 179 - This is the immutable resolution, and shall be the undoubted practice, of him who accounts it...
Sida 333 - We felt we had gone too far, and yet were almost deprived of the power of returning. At this moment the torch of the first Arab went out ; I was close to him, and saw him fall on his side ; he uttered a groan ; his legs were strongly convulsed, and I heard a rattling noise in his throat ; he was dead.

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