 | John Styles - 1807 - 216 pages
...enjoy, and to suffer, as a being that may to-morrow have finally abandoned this orb; every thing is done to beguile the feeling of his being a stranger and...inconsolable; and as if his fortune and happiness were forever wrecked, he mourns that " The Everlasting has fixed his canon 'gainst self-murder;" or, forgetting... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - 216 pages
...enjoy, and to suffer, as a being that may to-morrow have finally abandoned this orb; every thing is done to beguile the feeling of his being a stranger and...inconsolable; and as if his fortune and happiness were forever wrecked, he mourns that " The Everlasting has fixed his canon 'gainst self-murder;" or, forgetting... | |
 | John Foster - 1807 - 402 pages
...removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. Another article in which the anti- christian tendency of a great part of our productions of taste and... | |
 | John Styles - 1815 - 254 pages
...finally abandoned this orb ; every thing is done to beguile the feeling of his being a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth." The Stage " Endeavours to raise...which is the common lot of humanity, overtake him, be is inconsolable; and, as if his fortune and happiness were for ever wrecked, he mourns that " The... | |
 | John Foster - 1826 - 290 pages
...removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. Another article in which the anti-christian tendency of a great part of our productions of taste and... | |
 | 1828 - 318 pages
...nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise groves of an earthly paradise, to shade from sight...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. THE INSANITY OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. BIGLAND. THE circumstance of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity is related in... | |
 | John Styles - 1838 - 224 pages
...finally abandoned this orb ; every thing is done to beguile the feeling of his being a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth." The Stage " endeavours to raise...fixed his canon 'gainst self-murder ;" or, forgetting E 3 entirely that there is an Almighty Being and a future state, he ends with his own hands what he... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 pages
...removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. Another article in which the anti-Christian tendency of a great part of our productions of taste and... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pages
...removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. Another article in which the anti-christian tendency of a great part of our productions of taste and... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - 342 pages
...removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavor to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade...that vista which opens to the distance of eternity. 54. The good men of elegant writers less than Christians.—One thing extremely obvious to remark is,... | |
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... considerations of duty proceed and conclude. And their schemes of happiness, though formed for beings at once immortal and departing, include little which avowedly relates to that world to which they are removing, nor reach beyond the period at which... 
