The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... consider what approaches we can make to that divine love which these sufferings ex- pressed , and how far man , in imitation of his Savi- our , can bless those who curse him , and return good for evil . I 1 We cannot , indeed , behold ...
... consider what approaches we can make to that divine love which these sufferings ex- pressed , and how far man , in imitation of his Savi- our , can bless those who curse him , and return good for evil . I 1 We cannot , indeed , behold ...
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... consider it without being struck with a sense of our own debility : every man who compares his life with this divine rule , instead of exulting in his own excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , " God be ...
... consider it without being struck with a sense of our own debility : every man who compares his life with this divine rule , instead of exulting in his own excellence , will smite his breast like the publican , and cry out , " God be ...
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... consider him is at once a folly and a fault : each ought to reflect , that he is , at least in the opinion of the other , incurring the crimes that he imputes ; that the foundation of their enmity is no more than a mistake ; and that ...
... consider him is at once a folly and a fault : each ought to reflect , that he is , at least in the opinion of the other , incurring the crimes that he imputes ; that the foundation of their enmity is no more than a mistake ; and that ...
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... consider him in such circumstances as will incline us to fulfil the precept , and to regard him without the rancour of hatred or the fury of re- venge . Every character , however it may deserve punish- ment , excites hatred only in ...
... consider him in such circumstances as will incline us to fulfil the precept , and to regard him without the rancour of hatred or the fury of re- venge . Every character , however it may deserve punish- ment , excites hatred only in ...
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... consider the accident as of no consequence ; the china , she said , was a trifle , and she hoped Pompey was more frightened than hurt . I made some apo- logy , but with great confusion and incoherence : at length , however , we were ...
... consider the accident as of no consequence ; the china , she said , was a trifle , and she hoped Pompey was more frightened than hurt . I made some apo- logy , but with great confusion and incoherence : at length , however , we were ...
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...