The Meditations of a Recluse: Chiefly on Religious SubjectsF. and C. Rivington, and W. Clarke, 1802 |
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... Imagination's airy wing repress ; - Lock up thy senses ; —let no passion stir ; - Then , in thy soul's deep silence , thus inquire . YOUNG . I HAD formed a wish from the earliest times of which I have any recollection , that after ...
... Imagination's airy wing repress ; - Lock up thy senses ; —let no passion stir ; - Then , in thy soul's deep silence , thus inquire . YOUNG . I HAD formed a wish from the earliest times of which I have any recollection , that after ...
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... imagination , whose every step leads to dan- ger and destruction ? Who would not , un- der this impression , guard each avenue of sense , and check the ardour of each delu- sive passion ? -Who would not , in short , accept the means of ...
... imagination , whose every step leads to dan- ger and destruction ? Who would not , un- der this impression , guard each avenue of sense , and check the ardour of each delu- sive passion ? -Who would not , in short , accept the means of ...
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... imagination represents to them that they have been , through a long life perhaps , deluding their own hearts , that their unbelief was not the consequence of unprejudiced argument , but of of premeditated crimes , who can conceive the ...
... imagination represents to them that they have been , through a long life perhaps , deluding their own hearts , that their unbelief was not the consequence of unprejudiced argument , but of of premeditated crimes , who can conceive the ...
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... imagination " eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , " neither have entered into the heart of " man , the things which God hath prepared for those that love him . " 66 -- 3 Let Let the sceptic enjoy his gloom , the atheist his 58 Influence ...
... imagination " eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , " neither have entered into the heart of " man , the things which God hath prepared for those that love him . " 66 -- 3 Let Let the sceptic enjoy his gloom , the atheist his 58 Influence ...
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... imagination ; and if he expect behind the cloud - topt hill , a mode of existence differing from the present , his faithful dog , his com- panion and assistant in the chace , is intro- duced as a partaker of his humbler heaven . << But ...
... imagination ; and if he expect behind the cloud - topt hill , a mode of existence differing from the present , his faithful dog , his com- panion and assistant in the chace , is intro- duced as a partaker of his humbler heaven . << But ...
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Page 193 - The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 169 - Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things...
Page 189 - The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine : he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being ; to be great like him, , Beneficent and active.
Page 208 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 44 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wines and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Page 208 - O God, Thou art my' God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is ; To see Thy power and Thy glory, So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
Page 169 - But now ye also put off all these ; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds...
Page 199 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 30 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him?
Page 212 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.