The Christian hero [by sir R. Steele]. Steele |
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actions affiftance againſt alfo alſo ambition Apoſtle applauſe baniſhed baſe beſt beſtow bleffed bofom Brutus buſineſs Cæfar Caffius Cato Cato's cauſe Chriftian Chriſtian command confcience conftancy courſe Creator defign defire deſpiſed diſappointment eaſy endleſs enemy Epicurean eſcape eſteem faid falſe fame fatisfaction fcorn fecret feems felf felves ferve fervice fhall fince fincere firſt fome forrow fortune foul friends friendſhip fuch fuffer fuperiority fure fword glory greateſt happineſs heart higheſt himſelf honeſty honour illuftrious inſtead intereſt itſelf juſt laſt lefs leſs maſter Matth methinks midſt mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt narch nature neceffary obferve oppoſe ourſelves paffage paffions paſs perſon pleaſed pleaſure poſe praiſe preſent priſoner purpoſe purſue purſuit raiſe reaſon refolution refolved religion ſay ſeem ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſuch ſupport temper themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thought tion tyrs underſtand univerfal uſe virtue weakneſs whoſe
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Page 138 - ... would place in the number of his slaves, and the extent of his territories? Such undoubtedly would be the tragical effects of a...
Page 134 - There were not ever, before the entrance of the Christian name into the world, men who have maintained a more renowned carriage, than the two great rivals who possess the full fame of the present age, and will be the theme and examination of the future. They are exactly formed by nature for those ends to which Heaven seems to have sent them amongst us. Both animated with a restless desire of glory, but pursue it by different means, and with different motives.
Page 73 - I hinted just now, the distinctions of mankind are almost wholly to be resolved into those of the rich and the poor ; for as certainly as wealth gives acceptance and grace to all that its possessor says or does ; so poverty creates disesteem, scorn, and prejudice to all the undertakings of the indigent. The necessitous man has neither hands, lips, or...
Page 77 - ... the same offices. This temper of soul keeps us always awake to a just sense of things, teaches us that we are as well akin to worms as to angels; and as nothing is above these, so is nothing below those.
Page 141 - But, should there be such a foe of mankind now upon earth, have our sins so far provoked Heaven, that we are left utterly naked to his fury? Is there no power, no leader, no genius, that can conduct and animate us to our death, or to our defence?
Page 130 - ... human nature can arrive at. A coward has often fought, a coward has often conquered, but
Page 137 - ... capable of becoming luxury, enjoyments are a ready bait for sufferings, and the hopes of preferment invitations to servitude; which slavery would be coloured with all the agreements, as they call it, imaginable.
Page 62 - But thou, when thou prayeft, enter into thy clofet, and when thou haft fhut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in fecret, and thy Father which feeth in fecret, fhall reward thee openly.
Page 105 - For Christianity has that in it which makes men pity, not scorn the wicked ; and, by a beautiful kind of ignorance of themselves, think those wretches their equals.
Page 137 - ... both : so that his bounty should support him in his rapines, his mercy in his cruelties. ' Nor is it to give things a more severe look than is natural, to suppose such must be the consequences of a prince's having no other pursuit than that of his own glory ; for if we consider an...