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... labour have been unnecessarily wasted in rebutting these calumnies . I will endeavour to dispose of them with greater brevity . The story of his having been subjected to corporal chastisement at his college , though argued with ...
... labour have been unnecessarily wasted in rebutting these calumnies . I will endeavour to dispose of them with greater brevity . The story of his having been subjected to corporal chastisement at his college , though argued with ...
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... labour , or of play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . " The pensive man at one time walks unseen , to muse at midnight ; and at another , hears the sullen curfew . If the weather ...
... labour , or of play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . " The pensive man at one time walks unseen , to muse at midnight ; and at another , hears the sullen curfew . If the weather ...
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... Italian encomiasts , he adds , “ I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to.
... Italian encomiasts , he adds , “ I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to.
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A Biography Cyrus R. Edmonds. labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might , perhaps , leave something so written , to aftertimes , as they should not ...
A Biography Cyrus R. Edmonds. labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might , perhaps , leave something so written , to aftertimes , as they should not ...
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... labour of high soaring any more , forgot her heavenly flight , and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on in the old road , and drudging trade of outward conformity . " From these general considerations , Milton descends to the ...
... labour of high soaring any more , forgot her heavenly flight , and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on in the old road , and drudging trade of outward conformity . " From these general considerations , Milton descends to the ...
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Página 111 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 219 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Página 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 26 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 236 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Página 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Página 159 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Página 211 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?