Moral and religious essays poems [&c.]. from my diary, Band 11852 |
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Almighty Atheist Bantry beauty behold believe better blessings blissful feeling boat bright called child Clarinda creature dare death deed Dunmanway dwell earth earthly EDWARD YOUNG endeavour endowed eternal evil faith father fear feel folly fond fortune friends gain Gap of Dunloe Genius and Talent gipsy give glen Glengariff God's grace hand happiness heart heaven holy honour hope human humour influence Kenmare Killarney lady Lake of Killarney live LIVERPOOL look mercy mind mingle moral mountain nature never o'er ourselves path peace perfect possess reason reflect religion render repentant rock Satan scenes self-knowledge shun silent tongue sinner smile snare snowy white soothe sorrow soul spirit stings of conscience sublime Sugarloaf Mountain sweet teaches tell temper thee things thou thought tion truth unto virtue wander white squall whole wife wisdom woman yaw-haw young
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Seite 120 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes ; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shews the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptered sway — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Seite 120 - It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: "T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Seite 121 - Humility ! the sweetest, loveliest flower That bloomed in Paradise, and the first that died, Has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil: It is so frail, so delicate a thing, Tis gone if it but look upon itself; And she who ventures to esteem it hers, Proves by that single thought she has it not.
Seite 130 - Providence beflowed every external bleffing, if care has not been taken by ourfelves to fmooth the afperities of the temper. A bad temper embitters every fweet, and converts a paradife into a place of torment. The government of the temper then, on which the happinefs of 'the human race fo greatly depends, can never be too frequently or too forcibly recommended. But as it was found by fome of the ancients one of the.
Seite 82 - M' troubled ; if thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust : if thou send forth thy Spirit, they are created : ergo, the Holy Ghost is God.
Seite 152 - Take a pound of sincerity, and an equal quantity of prudence — mix...