The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, Tom 4 |
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For ! can never persuade myself to think , the world so constituted by the author of
it , and human society , which is his ordinance , so shabby a business , that the
buying and selling of votes and consciences should be essential to its existence .
For ! can never persuade myself to think , the world so constituted by the author of
it , and human society , which is his ordinance , so shabby a business , that the
buying and selling of votes and consciences should be essential to its existence .
Strona 61
The quarrel that the world has with evangelic men and doctrines , they would
have with a host of angels in the human form . For it is the quarrel of owls with
sunshine ; of ignorance with divine illumination . Adieu , my dear Johnny ! We
shall ...
The quarrel that the world has with evangelic men and doctrines , they would
have with a host of angels in the human form . For it is the quarrel of owls with
sunshine ; of ignorance with divine illumination . Adieu , my dear Johnny ! We
shall ...
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... depravity of the human heart , and of our own in particular ; together with the
consequence that necessarily follows such wretched premises ; our
indispensable need of the atonement , and our inexpressible obligations to him
who made it .
... depravity of the human heart , and of our own in particular ; together with the
consequence that necessarily follows such wretched premises ; our
indispensable need of the atonement , and our inexpressible obligations to him
who made it .
Strona 130
... of his spirit , His felicity of description , and exqusite sensibility ; his experience
of life , and his sanctity of character , rendered him singularly fit and worthy to
delineate the progress of nature in all the different stages of human existence .
... of his spirit , His felicity of description , and exqusite sensibility ; his experience
of life , and his sanctity of character , rendered him singularly fit and worthy to
delineate the progress of nature in all the different stages of human existence .
Strona 133
I heard , and acquiesced : Then to and fro Oft pacing , as the mariner his deck ,
My grav ' lly bounds , from self to human kind I pass ' d , and next consider ' d —
what is man ? Knows he his origin can he ascend By reminiscence to his earliest
...
I heard , and acquiesced : Then to and fro Oft pacing , as the mariner his deck ,
My grav ' lly bounds , from self to human kind I pass ' d , and next consider ' d —
what is man ? Knows he his origin can he ascend By reminiscence to his earliest
...
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