The Miscellaneous Works of Charles CollignonF. Hodson, 1786 - 345 страница |
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affert againſt almoſt ARISTUS becauſe beſt bleffings bleſſed blood body breaſt cafe Camb cauſe Chriftian circumſtances CLEANTHES Colcheſter Coll confequence confiderable conftitution cuſtom defigned defire difpofition diſappointment diſeaſe enquiry Eudoxus exerciſe facred faid fame faſhionable feem fhall firſt fituation fome fometimes foul friends ftill fuch fufferings fufficient fuppofe furely happineſs Heart himſelf Hippocrates Honor HORTENSIUS houſe human inftance itſelf Landbeach laſt leaſt lefs leſs Lord Maſter meaſure mind miſchief miſtaken moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceſſary obfervations occafion ourſelves paffage paffion pain perfons perhaps PHILALETHES Phyfic pleaſe pleaſure poffible pow'r praiſe preſent puniſhment purpoſe purſue purſuit quæ raiſe reaſon reſpect reſt ſay ſcarce ſcenes ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſhould ſome SOPHRONIUS ſpeak ſpread ſtate ſtill ſtructure ſubject ſuch Suffolk ſupport ſuppoſed thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe underſtand univerfal uſe uſually whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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Страница 59 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
Страница 58 - The Supreme Disposer of events has commanded delight and profit to walk hand in hand, through his ample creation ; making all things so perfectly pleasing, as if beauty was their only end ; yet all things so eminently serviceable,* as if usefulness had been their sole design.
Страница 55 - ... and it were as reasonable to hope for a year without winter, as for a life without trouble. Life (how sweet soever it seems) is a draught mingled with bitter ingredients: some drink deeper than others before they come at them ; but if they do not swim at the top for youth to taste them, it is ten to one but old age will find them thick in the bottom. And it is the employment of faith and patience, and the work of wisdom and virtue, to teach us to drink the sweet part down with pleasure and thankfulness...
Страница 129 - Have we not on the contrary feen the afTertion verified, " that God hath made man upright; but they " have fought out many inventions.
Страница 59 - But the exercises of gratitude subsisted in Paradise, when there was no fault to deplore ; and will be perpetuated in heaven, when "God shall be all in all.
Страница 216 - PALyEOLOcus thefecondofthename, was fick, and kept his bed a twelve-month together, of a difeafe that his phyficians could fcarce find a name for, and...
Страница 216 - That fex (fays the fcandalous hiftoj-ian,) bting generally provided 'with fuch a remedy, the emprefs applied it immediately, and to that degree, as to fuffer nothing to be done which he commanded ; but fo crofled and vexed him in every thing, that the torment fhe continually gave him, at length forced him into a fweat, by which means the natural heat being ftirred up, and augmented by...
Страница 57 - I return: the Lord gave, and the Lord ' hath taken away, blefled be the name of the Lord*.
Страница 58 - Man, therefore, was formed to ** fupply this want, endowed with powers fit to find out, and " to acknowledge thefe unlimited perfections ; and then put into " this Temple of God, this lower world, as the prieft of nature, " to offer up the incenfe of Thanks and Praife for the mute and " inienfible part of the Creation.
Страница 216 - Sex (fays the fcandalous hi ftorian,) being generally provided' •with fuch a remedy^ the Emprefs applied' it immediately, and to that degree, as to fuffer nothing to be done which he- commanded; butfo croffed and vexed him in every thing, that the torment fhe continually gave him, at length forced him into a fweat, by which means the natural heat being ftirred...