Essays Upon Several Moral SubjectsD. Brown, 1713 - 442 strán (strany) |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 80.
Strana viii
... Riches or Popularity , frugal in his Expences , and temperate in his Diet : A Faithful Friend , a Loyal Subject , an Able Statesman , a Conftant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities , and a zealous De- fender of Piety and Religion ...
... Riches or Popularity , frugal in his Expences , and temperate in his Diet : A Faithful Friend , a Loyal Subject , an Able Statesman , a Conftant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities , and a zealous De- fender of Piety and Religion ...
Strana xvi
... Riches , Plea- fures , Converfation , & c , Page 89 . Moral Gallantry : A Difcourfe wherein the Author endeavours to prove , That Point Honour ( abstracting from all other Ties obliges Men to be Virtuous . And that there is nothing fo ...
... Riches , Plea- fures , Converfation , & c , Page 89 . Moral Gallantry : A Difcourfe wherein the Author endeavours to prove , That Point Honour ( abstracting from all other Ties obliges Men to be Virtuous . And that there is nothing fo ...
Strana 8
... Riches as the unneceffary Baggage of Man's Life , and the Mud which clogg'd the Wings of the Soul's Contemplation ... Rich Glutton had dieted himself according to the fcant Prefcript of their allowance , his fcorched Tongue had not ftood ...
... Riches as the unneceffary Baggage of Man's Life , and the Mud which clogg'd the Wings of the Soul's Contemplation ... Rich Glutton had dieted himself according to the fcant Prefcript of their allowance , his fcorched Tongue had not ftood ...
Strana 56
... rich Mines ( as if God intended to bestow a great Portion where he bestows an ill Face ) ; and what we think De- formities , were placed there as Patches ; and are no more Blemishes , than the Spots are to the Leo- pards . I confess ...
... rich Mines ( as if God intended to bestow a great Portion where he bestows an ill Face ) ; and what we think De- formities , were placed there as Patches ; and are no more Blemishes , than the Spots are to the Leo- pards . I confess ...
Strana 79
... rich Meditations , and each Word a Spell , fufficient to conjure the Devil of Delphos , Might not that excellent Expreffion , Let us make man after our image , convince any of the Being of a Trinity , who deny Plurality of Gods ? It is ...
... rich Meditations , and each Word a Spell , fufficient to conjure the Devil of Delphos , Might not that excellent Expreffion , Let us make man after our image , convince any of the Being of a Trinity , who deny Plurality of Gods ? It is ...
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
admire Affiftance againſt albeit alfo amongst Anfwer Avarice becauſe beft beftow believe caufe Celador cheat Chriftian Church conclude Confcience confefs confider Creatures deferves defign defire Difcourfe Divine doth eafy Eftate Efteem elfe elſe endeavour Enemies faid fame fatisfy fave fear fecure feeing feems feen felf felves ferve fhall fhew fhould fince firft fome Frugality ftand ftill fuch fuffer fure Glory greateſt Happineſs hath Heaven himſelf Honour Humour Inftance Intereft juft Juftice Lacedemon laft leaft lefs likewife Luft Luxury Mafter Meaſures ment moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary Neceffities nefs noble Number obferved Occafion oft-times Paffion Pains Perfons perfuade Philofophers pleafe pleaſant pleaſe Pleaſure prefent Publick Employment Puniſhment raiſe Reafon refolved Refpect Revenge Riches ſeeing Senfe Solitude Soul thefe themſelves ther thereby theſe thing thofe thoſe thought Thouſands underſtand uſe Vice vicious Virtue virtuous whereas wherein whereof whilft whofe worfe World
Populárne pasáže
Strana 364 - Res ítalas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes ; in publica commoda peccem, Si longo sermone morer tua tempora, Caesar.
Strana xii - Observations on the Laws and Customs of Nations as to Precedency, with the science of heraldry, treated as a part of the civil law of nations ; wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms,
Strana xx - I believe that there is a Church militant, which, like the ark, must lodge in its bowels all such as are to be saved from the flood of condemnation : but to chalk out its bordering lines, is beyond the geography of my religion.
Strana xiii - A Defence of the Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland ; with a true account when the Scots were governed by the kings in the Isle of Britain," 1685, 8vo. This was written in answer to " An historical Account of Church-Government as it was in Great Britain and Ireland, when they first received the Christian religion,
Strana 83 - I were worthy to be consulted in these spiritual securities, I should advise every private Christian rather to stay still in the barge of the Church, with the other disciples, than by an ill-bridled zeal to hazard drowning alone with Peter, by offering to walk upon the...
Strana 157 - Moral gallantry ;" a discourse, in which he endeavours to prove, that the point of honour, setting aside all other ties, obliges men to be virtuous ; and that there is nothing so mean and unworthy of a gentleman, as vice : to which is added, a consolation against calumnies, shewing how to bear them with chearfulness and patience.
Strana 81 - Albeit the glass of my years hath not yet turned five and twenty, yet the curiosity I have to know the different limbos of departed souls, and to view the card of the region of death, would give me abundance of courage to encounter this king of terrors, though I were a pagan ; but when I consider what joys are prepared for them who fear the Almighty ; and what craziness attends such as sleep in Methusalem's cradle, I pity them who make long life one of the oftest repeated petitions of their...
Strana 89 - A Moral Essay, preferring Solitude to Publick Employment and all its Appanages. . .(Edinburgh, 1665).
Strana 345 - And it is a great defect in our reason that those ills which follow as necessary consequences are despised as mean, because the consequences themselves are remote. And as that is the best eye, so that is likewise the best reason, which sees clearly at a great distance. Another great error that...