Glances from the moon, or, Lucubrations from the miscellany of one unknownS.Y. Griffith and Company, 1824 - 304 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... Perhaps it might be judi- cious to abandon the design in which I have so hastily engaged : it may be so : but this would be to acknowledge a defeat : a sore evil : and no less galling to him who wields the pen , when seated at his table ...
... Perhaps it might be judi- cious to abandon the design in which I have so hastily engaged : it may be so : but this would be to acknowledge a defeat : a sore evil : and no less galling to him who wields the pen , when seated at his table ...
Pàgina xi
... perhaps enow to satisfy the demand and curiosity of a population , amounting to twenty thou sand souls ; whom I pray to congratulate on their fortunate acquisition and esta- blishment of " reading made easy . " But , I have ventured to ...
... perhaps enow to satisfy the demand and curiosity of a population , amounting to twenty thou sand souls ; whom I pray to congratulate on their fortunate acquisition and esta- blishment of " reading made easy . " But , I have ventured to ...
Pàgina 3
... perhaps much disturbed , by an imagination , that if the doctrine of mate- rialism should rest on a sure foundation , the expectation of a state of being , after the death of the body , must be raised upon a loose one . Nay , even the ...
... perhaps much disturbed , by an imagination , that if the doctrine of mate- rialism should rest on a sure foundation , the expectation of a state of being , after the death of the body , must be raised upon a loose one . Nay , even the ...
Pàgina 15
... perhaps , the mind most devoted to , most in love with scepticism , if the counsels of the heart were indeed made manifest , never has , perfectly and satisfactorily , re- sisted . My reason for such conclusion is sim ply this : because ...
... perhaps , the mind most devoted to , most in love with scepticism , if the counsels of the heart were indeed made manifest , never has , perfectly and satisfactorily , re- sisted . My reason for such conclusion is sim ply this : because ...
Pàgina 21
... perhaps not unfrequently , to be brought from , and returned to their " watch tower in the skies ! " suppose , I pray you , merely in the way of experiment - nay , but my dear Sir , remember " fiat experimentum , " was the dictate of ...
... perhaps not unfrequently , to be brought from , and returned to their " watch tower in the skies ! " suppose , I pray you , merely in the way of experiment - nay , but my dear Sir , remember " fiat experimentum , " was the dictate of ...
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Pàgina 41 - I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King Ah wherefore?
Pàgina 157 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Pàgina 183 - And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little : thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Pàgina 42 - As great might have aspired, and me, though mean, Drawn to his part ; but other powers as great Fell not, but stand unshaken, from within Or from without, to all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand? Thou hadst : whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But Heaven's free love dealt equally to all?
Pàgina 45 - Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good...
Pàgina 157 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Pàgina 41 - Ah, wherefore ? he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due...
Pàgina 124 - Sleep, the innocent Sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, chief nourisher in Life's feast.
Pàgina 246 - ... sauntering in the direction of their dormitory and their perch. As the air, activity, and gaiety of morn were greeted with their poor but best music, in brisk and flippant salutation, so are their retiring notes expressive of the quietude and composure of the evening hour : their farcwel requiem to the day.
Pàgina 246 - THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. From the notes and tones of our domestic fowl alone we could produce a variety of instances to show that they are adapted and directed to particular occasions, all expressive of and working to a meaning and an end. We might dwell upon the difference of their tones or vocal sounds when they come cheerily forth at early morn, themselves gay, humble, and sprightly, like itself ; and the drawling gravity of their notes suited to the loiter and slowness of their step, when day is...