Lackington's Confessions, Rendered Into Narrative: To which are Added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-schoolsB. Crosby and Company, 1804 - 150 páginas |
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... universal . We are poor purblind mortals ; we wish to extinguish the sun and walk by a taper ; the necessary restraints enforced on our violent , headlong passions , grows not only tiresome to us , but we grow to vilify the precepts as ...
... universal . We are poor purblind mortals ; we wish to extinguish the sun and walk by a taper ; the necessary restraints enforced on our violent , headlong passions , grows not only tiresome to us , but we grow to vilify the precepts as ...
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... universal King * . We can only hope for the joys of that heaven , the way to which atheism and infidelity have perplexed , but not rendered impassable , by foregoing the vices of an unbridled nature , by abandoning for ever the errors ...
... universal King * . We can only hope for the joys of that heaven , the way to which atheism and infidelity have perplexed , but not rendered impassable , by foregoing the vices of an unbridled nature , by abandoning for ever the errors ...
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... universal nature ! to lay hold By more than feeble faith on the supreme ! To call heav'n's rich unfathomable mines ( Mines , which support archangels in their state ) Our own ! to rise in science , as in bliss , Initiate in the secrets ...
... universal nature ! to lay hold By more than feeble faith on the supreme ! To call heav'n's rich unfathomable mines ( Mines , which support archangels in their state ) Our own ! to rise in science , as in bliss , Initiate in the secrets ...
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... universal error shun , How just our pride , when we behold these heights ! Not those Ambition paints in air , but those Reason points out , and ardent Virtue gains ; And angels emulate ; our pride how just ! When mount we ? when these ...
... universal error shun , How just our pride , when we behold these heights ! Not those Ambition paints in air , but those Reason points out , and ardent Virtue gains ; And angels emulate ; our pride how just ! When mount we ? when these ...
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... eye , Unbroken , then , illustrious and entire , Its ample sphere , its universal frame , In full dimensions , swells to the survey ; And enters , at one glance , the ravish'd sight , From some superior point ( where who can tell ? 88.
... eye , Unbroken , then , illustrious and entire , Its ample sphere , its universal frame , In full dimensions , swells to the survey ; And enters , at one glance , the ravish'd sight , From some superior point ( where who can tell ? 88.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Almighty Anaxagoras atheists beauty believe Bible Bishop Bishop of Llandaff bliss boardingschools body Christ Christian Cicero concerning confessionalist Confessions creatures death death-bed repentance Deism Deist Denis Dick Thrifty divine doctrine Dorcas duties earth enlightened eternal ev'ry evil faith fear fessionalist freethinker give glory Gospel grace Greece habits happiness hath heart heaven hell holy hope human ignorance immortality infidel instruction irreligion Jack Jolly Jesus Lackington lady laws learned less letters ligion live Lord Lord Shaftesbury Madame de Genlis mankind mercy merit Methodist mind moral narrator nature neighbours never notions observations ourselves persecuted persons philosophers pious Plato poet pretended punishment quoted reason religion religious rendered respect Secker sentiments sincere sionalist sophisms soul sublime taught thee thine thing Thomas Paine thou thought tions Tockington true truth virtue Voltaire Wesley whilst whole wisdom word worship wretched writer written young zeal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 79 - But yet all is not done; man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting godhead, and, so losing all To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die. Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Página 76 - Not me? They, therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt...
Página 75 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view.
Página 97 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Página 63 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Página 76 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also...
Página 95 - Rests too in hope of meeting once again Its better half, never to sunder more. Nor shall it hope in vain: — The time draws on, When not a single spot of burial earth, Whether on land, or in the spacious sea, But must give back its long-committed...
Página 98 - A lewd young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, Father, says he, you are in a very miserable condition, if there is not another world. True son, said the hermit; but what is thy condition if there is?
Página 117 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Página 61 - T' improve those charms, and keep them in repair, For which the spoiler thanks thee not? Foul feeder ! Coarse fare and carrion please thee full as well, And leave as keen a relish...