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Page 43 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart! But thou canst read it there. Thy providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redress'd, When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Page 43 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Page 43 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 84 - Licences for that purpose under the Hand and Seal of the Governor or Commander in Chief of the...
Page 41 - Whereas there have been lately printed and published several seditious and scandalous libels against the proceedings of both houses of parliament, and other his majesty's courts of justice, to the dishonour of his majesty's government, and the hazard of...
Page 43 - Three or four printed books since have described, as near as it was proper to go (the man being a member of Parliament), Mr. Marvell to have been the author; but if he had, surely he should not have escaped being questioned in Parliament, or some other place.
Page 273 - King thought what he spake, that, as the most ^learned of the nation have, and still do mention Mr. Hooker with reverence; so he also did never mention him but with the epithet of learned, or judicious, or reverend, or venerable Mr. Hooker. Nor did his son, our late King Charles the First, ever mention him but with the same reverence, enjoining his son, our now gracious King, to be studious in Mr.
Page 62 - American Candour, in a tract lately published at boston, entitled " An Analysis of the late Correspondence between our Administration and Great Britain and France;" with an attempt to shew what are the real Causes of the failure of the négociation.
Page 278 - Cause I see a woman kind ? Or a well disposed nature Joined with a lovely feature ? Be she meeker, kinder, than Turtle-dove or pelican: If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be ? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love?
Page 374 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.

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