The Bioscope, Or Dial of Life, Explained: To which is Added, a Translation of St. Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, on the Rule of Christian Life : and an Elementary View of General Chronology, with a Perpetual Solar and Lunar Calendar |
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1st PERIOD 2d Period 5th PERIOD 9 Cal acquire ANCIENT HISTORY apostle average measure beginning Bioscope Bishop blessed called Charlemagne CHRIST Christian Chronology Church Cicero commandments computation contemplate Croesus death dial Dionysian Cycle divine Easter Easter-day Egypt Emperor Epact epocha established eternal evil exercise Gospel Greek hath HEAD of ROMAN heart heathen Heaven Hebrew Heracles holy honour human Jerusalem journey Julian Julian period Julius Cæsar King of England King of France labour live Lord lunar cycle ment mind MODERN HISTORY months moon moral agents nature ness observe old age ourselves Paulinus perfect PERSIAN EMPIRE Pope Gregory XIII present progress prophet prospect reason reckoning religion religious rendered righteousness ROMAN EMPIRE Romanus II Rome rule SACRED Saracens says SEVENTY soul Sun enters Sunday Letter things thou tion truth unto vice virtue wise youth
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Page 69 - tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 219 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 127 - Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end he directed the young lord to be called, and when he desired with great tenderness to hear his last injunctions, told him, 'I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Page 130 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Page 128 - The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader^ as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this...
Page 139 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, T 3 The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 22 - Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. Verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. "And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Page 97 - Where the prime actors of the last year's scene ; Their port so proud, their buskin, and their plume ? How many sleep, who kept the world awake With lustre, and with noise...
Page 246 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 223 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.