Roll of a tennis ball, through the moral world, a ser. of contemplations, by a solitary traveller [J. Stewart].1812 |
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... common society , of which he is a member . In this " age of reason , " when all ranks and degrees of men , come forward to promulge their sentiments ; when the most immoral and abandoned characters without a vestage of confusion ...
... common society , of which he is a member . In this " age of reason , " when all ranks and degrees of men , come forward to promulge their sentiments ; when the most immoral and abandoned characters without a vestage of confusion ...
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... common privilege , to point out what I conceive to be , certain abuses and improvements of society .. ร If my object was only to be known to the world as a writer ; I think , without any breach of modesty , I might have produced a play ...
... common privilege , to point out what I conceive to be , certain abuses and improvements of society .. ร If my object was only to be known to the world as a writer ; I think , without any breach of modesty , I might have produced a play ...
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... common error , is , in the catalogue of thy follies , the most absurd and ridiculous of all . SV . JA 33 I From thy ignorance of the joys of a thinking being , from thy thoughtlessness about the valuable purposes of life , and the ...
... common error , is , in the catalogue of thy follies , the most absurd and ridiculous of all . SV . JA 33 I From thy ignorance of the joys of a thinking being , from thy thoughtlessness about the valuable purposes of life , and the ...
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... common plot - so striking a combination which resembles a prodigy , leaves me without a doubt , that its whole success was written down in the decrees of eternity . This idea far from striking me as cruel and afflicting ; comforts me ...
... common plot - so striking a combination which resembles a prodigy , leaves me without a doubt , that its whole success was written down in the decrees of eternity . This idea far from striking me as cruel and afflicting ; comforts me ...
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... common fate ordains , Naked of heart , his cruel course he runs , Stung out of all most amiable in life , Prompt truth , and open thought , and smiles unfeign'd Affection as his species - wide diffused ; Noble presumption to mankind's ...
... common fate ordains , Naked of heart , his cruel course he runs , Stung out of all most amiable in life , Prompt truth , and open thought , and smiles unfeign'd Affection as his species - wide diffused ; Noble presumption to mankind's ...
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Page 217 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 362 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page 218 - Brethren, be not children in understanding : howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Page 423 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 390 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 434 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page 30 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 390 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 348 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 36 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.