Meditations Among the Tombs: In a Letter to a LadyJ. and J. Rivington; and J. Leake, Bath, 1746 - 122 עמודים |
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עמוד
... Ages , is both an Entertainment , and a Monitor , Plain Dealer . Vol . I. No 42 . LONDO N : Printed for J. and J. RIVINGTON , in St. Paul's Church - yard ; And J. LEAKE , at Bath . M DCC XLVI . то Mifs RT MADAM , HESE Reflections , the ...
... Ages , is both an Entertainment , and a Monitor , Plain Dealer . Vol . I. No 42 . LONDO N : Printed for J. and J. RIVINGTON , in St. Paul's Church - yard ; And J. LEAKE , at Bath . M DCC XLVI . то Mifs RT MADAM , HESE Reflections , the ...
עמוד 18
... Age , and a Balm for declining Nature . Or , if the Number of their Years be cut off in the midft , you may commit their Remains to the Duft , with much the fame comfortable Expectations , and with in- finitely more exalted Views , than ...
... Age , and a Balm for declining Nature . Or , if the Number of their Years be cut off in the midft , you may commit their Remains to the Duft , with much the fame comfortable Expectations , and with in- finitely more exalted Views , than ...
עמוד 20
... little Images , reclin❜d over the fleeping Ashes , hang down their Heads with that penfive Air ! None can confider fo mournful a Story without feeling fome Touches - His - Touches of sympathizing Concern . Age Twenty 201 MEDITATIONS.
... little Images , reclin❜d over the fleeping Ashes , hang down their Heads with that penfive Air ! None can confider fo mournful a Story without feeling fome Touches - His - Touches of sympathizing Concern . Age Twenty 201 MEDITATIONS.
עמוד 21
... Age Twenty - eight ; his Death fudden ; him- felf cut down in the Prime of Life , amidst all the Vivacity and Vigour of Manhood ; while his Breafts were full of Milk , and " his Bones moistened with Marrow . " Probably , he entertained ...
... Age Twenty - eight ; his Death fudden ; him- felf cut down in the Prime of Life , amidst all the Vivacity and Vigour of Manhood ; while his Breafts were full of Milk , and " his Bones moistened with Marrow . " Probably , he entertained ...
עמוד 24
... Age , he has nipped Infancy in its Bud ; blafted Touth in its Bloom ; and torn up Manhood in its full Maturity . - Terrible indeed are thefe Pro- vidences , yet not unfearchable the Counfels . For us they ficken , and for us they die ...
... Age , he has nipped Infancy in its Bud ; blafted Touth in its Bloom ; and torn up Manhood in its full Maturity . - Terrible indeed are thefe Pro- vidences , yet not unfearchable the Counfels . For us they ficken , and for us they die ...
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Meditations Among the Tombs: In A Letter to A Lady (1746) <span dir=ltr>James Hervey</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2009 |
Meditations Among the Tombs: In A Letter to A Lady (1746) <span dir=ltr>James Hervey</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2009 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 5 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
עמוד 25 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
עמוד 51 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
עמוד 67 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
עמוד 77 - To consider further this double end in the works of Nature, and how they are at the same time both useful and entertaining, we find that the most important parts in the vegetable world are those which are the most beautiful.
עמוד 74 - So much of eternity is gone;" for when millions of centuries are elapsed, it is but just commencing; and, when millions more have run their ample round, it will be no nearer ending. Yea, when ages, numerous as the bloom of spring, increased by the herbage of summer, both augmented by the leaves of autumn, and all multiplied by the drops of rain which drown the winter — when these, and ten thousand times ten thousand more...
עמוד 15 - Name : which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
עמוד 55 - In a grove of tulips, or a knot of pinks, one perceives a difference in almost every individual. Scarce any two are turned and tinctured exactly alike. Each allows himself a little particularity in his dress, though all belong to one family : so that they are various, and yet the same.
עמוד 45 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
עמוד 14 - Tis written, indeed, of its suffering Saviour, that when He had tasted the vinegar mingled with gall, He would not drink. And did our new-come stranger begin to sip the cup of life : but, perceiving the bitterness, turn away its head, and refuse the draught ? Was this the cause, why the wary babe only opened its eyes : just looked on the light : and then withdrew into the more inviting regions of undisturbed repose?