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Side 16
... fact that many of the quotations are slightly inaccurate . And because so many out of the same volume come together , and in order , I conclude that he was in the habit of sitting down from time to time , reviewing in memory the book he ...
... fact that many of the quotations are slightly inaccurate . And because so many out of the same volume come together , and in order , I conclude that he was in the habit of sitting down from time to time , reviewing in memory the book he ...
Side 19
... fact worth knowing , for it may serve as a caution and encouragement both , and it is one of those which the reverence of posterity is too apt to overlook or keep out of sight , that the various accomplish- ments for which Bacon was ...
... fact worth knowing , for it may serve as a caution and encouragement both , and it is one of those which the reverence of posterity is too apt to overlook or keep out of sight , that the various accomplish- ments for which Bacon was ...
Side 25
... fact come from Erasmus and some from the Bible . IV . The proverbs may all or nearly all be found in our common collections ; and the best of them are of course in everybody's mouth . The following , which are among the least familiar ...
... fact come from Erasmus and some from the Bible . IV . The proverbs may all or nearly all be found in our common collections ; and the best of them are of course in everybody's mouth . The following , which are among the least familiar ...
Side 87
... fact an inflammation and exasperation of them rather , multiplying and making them break out afresh . So it is nevertheless , that most men give themselves up entire- ly to imaginations of hope and these wanderings of the mind , and ...
... fact an inflammation and exasperation of them rather , multiplying and making them break out afresh . So it is nevertheless , that most men give themselves up entire- ly to imaginations of hope and these wanderings of the mind , and ...
Side 95
... ac- counted a very empty device . But the fact is that whatever does not depend upon God as author and principle , by links and subordinate degrees , the same will be instead of God , and a new principle MEDITATIONES SACRÆ . 95.
... ac- counted a very empty device . But the fact is that whatever does not depend upon God as author and principle , by links and subordinate degrees , the same will be instead of God , and a new principle MEDITATIONES SACRÆ . 95.
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Side 179 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Side 103 - Let the words of our mouths, and the meditations of our hearts be now and ever gracious in thy sight, and acceptable unto thee, O Lord, our God, our strength, and our Redeemer.
Side 117 - The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust. Yet...
Side 103 - ... seat, acknowledging that by the breach of all thy holy laws and commandments, we are become wild olive branches, strangers to thy covenant of grace ; we have defaced in ourselves thy sacred image imprinted in us by creation ; we have sinned against heaven and before thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children. O admit us into the place even of hired servants. Lord, thou hast formed us in our mothers...
Side 189 - IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another ; therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree.
Side 114 - The man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence. Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence: He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies.
Side 90 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead : 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Side 109 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Side 89 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 283 - ... society of Gray's Inn. He thus commences his address to the students: "I have chosen to read upon the Statute of Uses, a law whereupon the inheritances of this realm are tossed at this day, like a ship upon the sea, in such sort, that it is hard to say which bark will sink, and which will get to the haven; that is to say, what assurances will stand good, and what will not.