The Life of John Buncle, Esq: Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary Relations ...

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T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, and T. Cadell, 1770

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Pàgina 71 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
Pàgina 24 - I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God : and the books were opened : and another book was opened, which is the book of life : and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Pàgina 98 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...
Pàgina 25 - wherein we muft all appear before ' the judgment-feat of Chrift, that every one ' may receive the things done in his body, ' according to that he hath done, whether
Pàgina 11 - I say there is a sort of sex in souls. I am tender of offending them, and know it is hard not to do it on this subject ; but I must go on to say, that the soul of a man, and that of a woman, are made very unlike, according to the employments for which...
Pàgina 150 - But as he was matchless on the fiddle, sung well, and chatted agreeably, he was a favourite with the ladies. They preferred ugly Makins (as he was called) to many very handsome men. He was a Unitarian.
Pàgina 185 - The harmony of human souls. Fair guardian of domestic life, Kind banisher of homebred strife, Nor sullen lip, nor taunting eye Deforms the scene where thou art by: No sickening husband damns the hour Which bound his joys to female power; No pining mother weeps the cares Which parents waste on thankless heirs: The...
Pàgina 12 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Pàgina 22 - God winked at; but now coinmandeth all men every where to repent; becaufe he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by that man whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given aflurance unto all men, in that he hath raifed him from the dead.
Pàgina 139 - ... therefore, to give a general answer, once for all, I think it sufficient to observe, that I had a great many to carry on the succession ; but as they never were concerned in any extraordinary affairs, nor ever did any remarkable things, that I ever heard of; — only rise and breakfast, read and saunter, drink and eat, it would not be fair, in my opinion, to make any one pay for their history.

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