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... less of infirmity than I could have presumed to hope , and certainly with a degree of calmness and tranquillity of mind , which is gradually increasing , as I daily ap- proach the end of my pilgrimage . I think indeed that my life must ...
... less of infirmity than I could have presumed to hope , and certainly with a degree of calmness and tranquillity of mind , which is gradually increasing , as I daily ap- proach the end of my pilgrimage . I think indeed that my life must ...
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... less should we be terrified by apprehensions of extreme misery . In a transitory state like the present , there will be perpetual occurrences to diminish the one , and to mitigate the other ; thus producing in the moral , as in the ...
... less should we be terrified by apprehensions of extreme misery . In a transitory state like the present , there will be perpetual occurrences to diminish the one , and to mitigate the other ; thus producing in the moral , as in the ...
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... less acceptable . When , however , I say this , I except those cases , where indivi- duals have so applied the former part of life , as to leave the latter blank and comfortless : I only mean to assert , that if our youth be so employed ...
... less acceptable . When , however , I say this , I except those cases , where indivi- duals have so applied the former part of life , as to leave the latter blank and comfortless : I only mean to assert , that if our youth be so employed ...
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... less liable to casualties , than the young . BISHOP HOUGH . Perhaps we may fairly set the one against the other . I shall therefore venture to exclude them from the account ; and adopting the Ciceronian arrangement , OF OLD AGE . - 37.
... less liable to casualties , than the young . BISHOP HOUGH . Perhaps we may fairly set the one against the other . I shall therefore venture to exclude them from the account ; and adopting the Ciceronian arrangement , OF OLD AGE . - 37.
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... less fit for enterprises , which require bodily activity and strength : but they are not therefore disqualified for the conduct of business , or less fit for counsel , advice , or direction . And I must observe that in the Government of ...
... less fit for enterprises , which require bodily activity and strength : but they are not therefore disqualified for the conduct of business , or less fit for counsel , advice , or direction . And I must observe that in the Government of ...
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affections anxiety appointed Archbishop Archbishop of Cambray Archbishop Tenison attended benevolent BISHOP GIBSON BISHOP HOUGH Bishop of London Bishop of Worcester blessings bodily born Brother calm charity cheerful Christian Church Cicero clergy College comfort Convention Parliament dear death degree delight derived desire devotion died divine Don Quixote Duke duty endeavoured enjoy enjoyments eternal exertions existence faith father favour feel Fenelon give glory gratification habits happiness Hartlebury heart hope hour immortality inconveniences of age indulgence infirmity intellectual JOHN FLOYER King labour late lived Lord Bishop Lord Somers Lordship LYTTELTON Magdalen College MARSHAL VILLARS mean mercy mind mortal nature ness never object observe old age pain peace period pious pleasure prayer preach Prince of Orange religion resignation SANCROFT Scripture sensual soon soul spirit temper thing thought tion tranquillity truth vigour virtue young youth
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Page 60 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 120 - The secret (things belong) unto the Lord our God: but those (things which are) revealed (belong) unto us and to our children forever, that (we) may do all the words of this law.
Page 203 - you shall be my confessor : when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Page 65 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 185 - I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 240 - I do not understand the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the confession of Augsburg or Geneva ; nor the catechism of Heidelberg, nor the articles of the church of England — no, nor the harmony of Protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of faith, and action, that is, THE BIBLE ! The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.
Page 241 - I, for my part, after a long, and (as I verily believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness, do profess plainly, that I cannot find any rest for the sole of my foot but upon this rock only.
Page 224 - He used often to say that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it.
Page 8 - No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 204 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong; but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured, in private life, to do all the good in my power, and never for amoment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.