Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 Seiten |
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... possess the approbation of hist Creator . Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator , ever pouring wide From world to world the vital ocean round , On nature write , with ev'ry beam , his praise ! 1 The good opinion of ...
... possess the approbation of hist Creator . Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator , ever pouring wide From world to world the vital ocean round , On nature write , with ev'ry beam , his praise ! 1 The good opinion of ...
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... possess them . We cannot help being filled with in- ward horror when we see persons with troublesome excrescences , broken limbs , or of a cadaverous colour : on the con- trary , a placid temperature of the blood is shewn by an ...
... possess them . We cannot help being filled with in- ward horror when we see persons with troublesome excrescences , broken limbs , or of a cadaverous colour : on the con- trary , a placid temperature of the blood is shewn by an ...
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... possess them . What can be more suitable for the un- fortified state of man , than by our bene- volence to excite and engage others in our interests , to preserve a firm resolution in our greatest dangers , and to lay up in our hearts a ...
... possess them . What can be more suitable for the un- fortified state of man , than by our bene- volence to excite and engage others in our interests , to preserve a firm resolution in our greatest dangers , and to lay up in our hearts a ...
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... possess them , and hazardous to those who ap- proach them , disgust us by their irregu- larity , and are as it were the outcry of nature , warning us to beware of an ene- my who threatens us . On the contrary , a happy conformation of ...
... possess them , and hazardous to those who ap- proach them , disgust us by their irregu- larity , and are as it were the outcry of nature , warning us to beware of an ene- my who threatens us . On the contrary , a happy conformation of ...
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... possess them , may at the same time con- tribute to the happiness of those who have any intercourse with them . Fine features embellish those captivating qua- lities of the soul , and in a manner assure , that they may become useful to ...
... possess them , may at the same time con- tribute to the happiness of those who have any intercourse with them . Fine features embellish those captivating qua- lities of the soul , and in a manner assure , that they may become useful to ...
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abilities able agreeable sensations appears Author of Nature beauty become benevolence bloom body brain breast cause charms cheerful choly chords colour consonant Creator delight displeasing disposition Divine DUCHESS OF YORK endeavour enjoy envy Epicurus esteem eternal ev'ry exercise faculties fancy fection feel felicity fibres flatter friendship genius give happiness hatred heart Heav'n human idea idea of perfection imagination immolate impres impression laws of sensation likewise lively mankind manner ment mind misfor motions munificent Nature's neighbour neral ness objects opulence organs ourselves passions peculiar perfection plea pleasing sensation pleasure possess power of love praise preservation pression principal procure proportion racters reason requisite rill Royal Highness Royal Highness's sations satisfaction scene sciences secret self-love senses sensible sentiments shew shine sion soul springs sublimity superior tain tastes thing thought tion torpid true variety virtue virtuous person Whence comes wisdom
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Seite 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Seite 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Seite 76 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Seite 134 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Seite 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Seite 123 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 95 - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
Seite 99 - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
Seite 31 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.