The life of John Buncle, Esq: containing various observations and reflections, made in several parts of the world, and many extraordinary relations, Volume 1J. Johnson and B. Davenport, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row., 1766 - 532 pages |
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... a deliberate refolution not to be governed by reafon . He would wink at the light he had , ftruggle to evade conviction , and make his mind a chaos and a bell , Bellinda , at the fame fame time , was too quick , too vain , 6 THE LIFE OF.
... a deliberate refolution not to be governed by reafon . He would wink at the light he had , ftruggle to evade conviction , and make his mind a chaos and a bell , Bellinda , at the fame fame time , was too quick , too vain , 6 THE LIFE OF.
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... light ; and concealed piety and pers fecuted virtue be acknowledged and honour- ed . While innocence and piety are fet at the right hand of the judge , and the righte- ous fhall fhine forth as the fun in the king- dom of their father ...
... light ; and concealed piety and pers fecuted virtue be acknowledged and honour- ed . While innocence and piety are fet at the right hand of the judge , and the righte- ous fhall fhine forth as the fun in the king- dom of their father ...
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... light enough to distinguish the blaze of day from evening fhade , and had feats difperfed , to fit and liften to the chorus of the birds , which ad- ded to the pleasures of the foft filent place . For about three hundred yards the walk ...
... light enough to distinguish the blaze of day from evening fhade , and had feats difperfed , to fit and liften to the chorus of the birds , which ad- ded to the pleasures of the foft filent place . For about three hundred yards the walk ...
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... the preachers for celibacy in no other light than as fo many devils . May you ponder in time on this horrible affair . Orton Lodge , at my wife's request , as the E 2 JOHN BUNCLE , Efq ; 51 The author marries Mifs Statia Henley.
... the preachers for celibacy in no other light than as fo many devils . May you ponder in time on this horrible affair . Orton Lodge , at my wife's request , as the E 2 JOHN BUNCLE , Efq ; 51 The author marries Mifs Statia Henley.
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... Lights , and the God of all comforts , inform our understandings with truth , and give us one ray of that divine wif- dom which fitteth on the right hand of thy throne . O let us be always under thy com- F 1 munication munication and ...
... Lights , and the God of all comforts , inform our understandings with truth , and give us one ray of that divine wif- dom which fitteth on the right hand of thy throne . O let us be always under thy com- F 1 munication munication and ...
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Page 473 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 29 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 343 - The fpecific gravity of a body is the weight of it, when the bulk is given j 38 grains of gold weighed in the air, is not the true weight of it: for there it...
Page 159 - To this I reply, that I think it unreasonable and impious to grieve immoderately for the dead. A decent and proper tribute of tears and sorrow, humanity requires ; but when that duty has been paid, we must remember, that to lament a dead woman is not to lament a wife. A wife must be a living woman.
Page 474 - That all things weighs, and nothing can admire : That dares prefer the toils of Hercules To dalliance, banquet, and ignoble ease.
Page 277 - Learning and knowledge are perfections in us, not as we are men, but as we are reasonable creatures, in which order of beings the female world is upon the same level with the male.
Page 28 - ... which he will judge * the world in righteoufnefs, by that man ' whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath ' given affurance unto all men, in that he * hath raifed him from the dead.
Page 29 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was no place found for them.
Page 245 - He is the brightnefs of the Father's glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon: he has an excellency tranfcendent, and to the life reprefents what is infinitely great and perfect.
Page 495 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.