The British Essayists, Volumen18Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1807 |
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... mind in its purest innocence , as well as celebrate her per- son in its highest beauty . This work would instruct a woman to be a good wife , all the while it is a woo- ing her to be a bride . Imagination and reason should go hand in ...
... mind in its purest innocence , as well as celebrate her per- son in its highest beauty . This work would instruct a woman to be a good wife , all the while it is a woo- ing her to be a bride . Imagination and reason should go hand in ...
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... minds are apt to speak well of the man of fury ; because , when the storm is over , he is full of sorrow and repentance ; but the truth is , he is apt to commit such ravages during his madness , that when he comes to himself , he ...
... minds are apt to speak well of the man of fury ; because , when the storm is over , he is full of sorrow and repentance ; but the truth is , he is apt to commit such ravages during his madness , that when he comes to himself , he ...
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... mind . There is yet a third sort of revenge , if it may be called a third , which is compounded of the other two : I mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men of good edu- cation , though naturally ...
... mind . There is yet a third sort of revenge , if it may be called a third , which is compounded of the other two : I mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men of good edu- cation , though naturally ...
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... minds of men , are most eminent benefactors to human nature ; and how- ever overlooked in the loud and thoughtless applauses that are every day bestowed on the slaughterers and disturbers of mankind , yet they will never want the esteem ...
... minds of men , are most eminent benefactors to human nature ; and how- ever overlooked in the loud and thoughtless applauses that are every day bestowed on the slaughterers and disturbers of mankind , yet they will never want the esteem ...
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... mind are permanent and universal . Plato and Euclid enjoy a sort of im- mortality upon earth , and at this day read lectures to the world . But if to inform the understanding , and regu- late the will , is the most lasting and diffusive ...
... mind are permanent and universal . Plato and Euclid enjoy a sort of im- mortality upon earth , and at this day read lectures to the world . But if to inform the understanding , and regu- late the will , is the most lasting and diffusive ...
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Página 201 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, But thou excellest them all.
Página 200 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Página 200 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ' ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants ' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 9 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Página 35 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time ; thence hurried back to, fire.
Página 144 - A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Página 33 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 200 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Página 39 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Página 40 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age. He was taken away speedily, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul,