Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 27Pub. for J. Hinton, 1760 |
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Page 218 - Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim, that the high and mighty Prince...
Page 253 - But the righteous live for evermore ; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand : for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Page 150 - I know my body's of so frail a kind As force without, fevers within, can kill; I know the heavenly nature of my mind, But 'tis corrupted both in wit and will; I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all; I know I am one of nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. I...
Page 253 - And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble. They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
Page 335 - ... in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold; after this he must go in three times a week for a fortnight longer.
Page 150 - There, plung'd amid the shadows brown, Imagination lays him down; Attentive, in his airy mood, To every murmur of the wood : The bee in yonder flowery nook ; The chidings of the headlong brook ; The green leaf shivering in the gale ; The warbling hill, the lowing vale; The distant woodman's echoing stroke ; The thunder of the falling oak, From thought to thought in vision led, He holds high converse with the dead ; Sages, or poets.
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Page 151 - ... to men : Lo! Socrates, the Sent of Heaven, To whom its moral will was given. Fathers and friends of human kind! They form'd the nations, 'or refin'd, With all that mends the head and heart, Enlightening truth, adorning art.
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