Modern Society, Or, The March of Intellect: The Conclusion of Modern AccomplishmentsWilliam Whyte, 1837 - 470 strán (strany) |
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Strana 44 - Thine eye my bed and path surveys, My public haunts and private ways; Thou know'st what 'tis my lips would vent. My yet unutter'd words
Strana 319 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Strana 117 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Strana 274 - Oh ! I would walk A weary journey to the farthest verge Of the big world, to kiss that good man's hand, Who, in the blaze of wisdom and of art, Preserves a lowly mind ; and to his God, Feeling the sense of his own littleness, Is as a child in meek simplicity!
Strana 469 - With passions unruffled, untainted with pride, By reason my life let me square : The wants of my nature are cheaply supplied ; And the rest are but folly and care. How vainly through infinite trouble and strife, The many their labours employ ! Since all that is truly delightful in life, ... Is what all, if they please, may enjoy.
Strana 367 - Here lies honest Richard, whose fate I must sigh at, Alas, that such frolic should now be so quiet ! What spirits were his, what wit and what whim, Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb ! Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball, Now...
Strana 49 - I survey,' the country is endurable; but otherwise give me any town on earth, Berwick, or Mutton-hole in preference." " I always feel like Cowper, that God made the country, and man made the town ; and mine is like the sensation of a bird escaping from its cage, when first we emerge into green fields and gay shrubberies again* I could have embraced the first tree on our road, for it seemed like a long absent friend restored to me again.
Strana 221 - Swift, that angling is always to be considered as "a stick and a string, with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.
Strana 94 - Where'er a tear was dried, a wounded heart Bound up, a bruised spirit with the dew Of sympathy anointed, or a pang Of honest suffering soothed, or injury Repeated oft, as oft by love forgiven ; Where'er an evil passion...
Strana 282 - Many Christians feel satisfied,' replied Matilda, ' with that important text which declares, that 'eye hath not Been, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.' ' ' Yet,' said Dr Murray, ' we must not forget the verse •which comes next : ' But God hath revealed them to us, by his Spirit.' The passage which follows, enjoins Christians to ' know the things that are freely given to them of God...