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Page 172 - Deliberate on all things, with thy friend, But since friends grow not thick on every bough, First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself. Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix : Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
Page 88 - but to unite the figleaf, to the days when the mother of Sisera looked from her window, in expectation of a " prey of divers colours of needle-work on both sides, meet for the necks of those
Page 50 - revealed its hermit-policy: but will these researches be available, in a state of being, which " eye hath not seen, nor ear heard— nor the heart of man conceived ?
Page 49 - It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world
Page 214 - to dive into the depth of dungeons—to plunge into the infection of hospitals—■ to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain—to take the gauge
Page 253 - power of regulating the habits and the business of life, so as to extract the greatest possible portion of comfort, out of small means— the refining and tranquillizing enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art, and the kindred perception of the beauty and nobility of
Page 42 - When by the whelming tempest borne, High o'er the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 46 - By God's grace, I have loved him in my youth, and feared him in my age, and laboured to have a conscience void of offence, towards him and towards all men.
Page 45 - There runs not a drop of my blood, in the veins of any living creature.
Page 12 - the moulding of the whole mass of mind in its first formation, should be acquainted with the structure and developments of mind ?—that they who are to nurture the future rulers of a prosperous people, should be able to demonstrate from the broad