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Page vii
... that you Now Salute me with Letters for you came to me perhaps only led ty the Opinion of the World , but your Return- ing by Letter is the refult of your Own Judgment , Gr or at leaft Benevolence . of which I find that vii.
... that you Now Salute me with Letters for you came to me perhaps only led ty the Opinion of the World , but your Return- ing by Letter is the refult of your Own Judgment , Gr or at leaft Benevolence . of which I find that vii.
Page viii
... perhaps Tolerable , I may not appear to be Unequal in my Mind and Manners , I fhall add a Weight to my Writings , and shall gain ftill more Honour and Praise from Them , ( if indeed they do Deferve Any , ) when it shall be seen that it ...
... perhaps Tolerable , I may not appear to be Unequal in my Mind and Manners , I fhall add a Weight to my Writings , and shall gain ftill more Honour and Praise from Them , ( if indeed they do Deferve Any , ) when it shall be seen that it ...
Page xv
... perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . of the First of Thefe , Sir Henry Wootton in his Letter to Milton , gives a great Encomium , and Toland fays , " that for the peculiar Difpofition of the " Story , the Sweetness of the ...
... perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . of the First of Thefe , Sir Henry Wootton in his Letter to Milton , gives a great Encomium , and Toland fays , " that for the peculiar Difpofition of the " Story , the Sweetness of the ...
Page xxix
... perhaps he Never Sufpected his Garment Had , or would have any Such Spot upon it . I don't remember to have Ever heard he was Sour , Ill - natur'd , or Morofe in General , and in Common Life , but the Contrary : the Warmth , the Vigour ...
... perhaps he Never Sufpected his Garment Had , or would have any Such Spot upon it . I don't remember to have Ever heard he was Sour , Ill - natur'd , or Morofe in General , and in Common Life , but the Contrary : the Warmth , the Vigour ...
Page xxxiii
... Imagining , as well as I can , what He would have faid ; though far Otherwise than if he was Dictating to Me . Perhaps He would not have Condefcended to b z have have Anfwer'd Thefe Cavillers , Unless by Roughly Asking them xxxiii.
... Imagining , as well as I can , what He would have faid ; though far Otherwise than if he was Dictating to Me . Perhaps He would not have Condefcended to b z have have Anfwer'd Thefe Cavillers , Unless by Roughly Asking them xxxiii.
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.