The Bioscope, Or Dial of Life: Explained. To which is Added, a Translation of St. Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, on the Rule of Christian Life: and an Elementary View of General Chronology |
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... short moments we retrace , ( As in a map the voyager his course , ) The winding of our way through many years . 7. From the division of the scale which Prospect . we have just completed , we shall naturally direct a curious eye forward ...
... short moments we retrace , ( As in a map the voyager his course , ) The winding of our way through many years . 7. From the division of the scale which Prospect . we have just completed , we shall naturally direct a curious eye forward ...
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... short , that it has appeared to some per- 66 sons to have no existence at all . For " it is in continual passage ; it almost ceases to be before we are well aware " that it is ; so that we at all times rather " perceive it to be gone ...
... short , that it has appeared to some per- 66 sons to have no existence at all . For " it is in continual passage ; it almost ceases to be before we are well aware " that it is ; so that we at all times rather " perceive it to be gone ...
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... short and tran- " sient , his second permanent and lasting . " The question we are all concerned in " is this , in which of these two lives is it our chief interest to make ourselves 27 66 ( 6 happy ? — Every man , upon the first hear ...
... short and tran- " sient , his second permanent and lasting . " The question we are all concerned in " is this , in which of these two lives is it our chief interest to make ourselves 27 66 ( 6 happy ? — Every man , upon the first hear ...
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... short even of that age ? How would " he be lost in horror and admiration , when " he should know , that this set of creatures , " who lay out all their endeavours for this " life , which scarce deserves the name of " existence - When ...
... short even of that age ? How would " he be lost in horror and admiration , when " he should know , that this set of creatures , " who lay out all their endeavours for this " life , which scarce deserves the name of " existence - When ...
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... short it is . " - " Pro- pone profundi temporis vastitatem , et UNI- VERSAM complectere . Deinde hoc quod " ætatem vocamus humanam compara cum IMMENSO ; videbis quam exiguam sit quod " optamus , quod extendimus . - Represent to ...
... short it is . " - " Pro- pone profundi temporis vastitatem , et UNI- VERSAM complectere . Deinde hoc quod " ætatem vocamus humanam compara cum IMMENSO ; videbis quam exiguam sit quod " optamus , quod extendimus . - Represent to ...
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1st PERIOD 2d Period 5th PERIOD acquire ANCIENT HISTORY apostle average measure beginning Bioscope Bishop blessed called Charlemagne CHRIST Christian Chronology Church Cicero commandments Commencement common computation contemplate Croesus death dial Dionysian Dionysian cycle divided divine Easter-day Egypt Emperor epact epocha established eternal evil exercise FRENCH EMPIRE Gospel Greek habit happiness hath HEAD of ROMAN heart heathen Heaven Hebrew Heracles holy honour human journey Julian period Julius Cæsar King of England King of France labour live Lord lunar cycle ment Middle-Age mind MODERN HISTORY moon moral agents nature object ourselves Paulinus perfect Pope Gregory XIII present progress prophet prospect reason reckoning reflect religion rendered righteousness ROMAN EMPIRE Romanus II Rome rule SACRED Saracens says sensible SEVENTY solar soul Sunday Letter Sunday-letter things thou thoughts tion truth unto vice virtue wise youth
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Page 69 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 225 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 69 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 134 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Page 228 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 231 - 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.
Page 97 - So went on, Foretelling this same time's condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Page 142 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bug-bears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 200 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness ? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Page 229 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.