 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 pages
...reader will not be displeased to see this principle illustrated in the richest glow of poetry. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All but the page prescribed, their present state, From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...smooth the bfed of death. — COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. 1 Heav'n from all creatures, hides the book of fate .; All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, .from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...bed of-death. COTTOS. SECTION "iX. • Providence vindicated in the -present state of man, 1, HKAV'W from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...ambition in the fool that uses it. SHAKSPEARE. CHAP. XII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer... | |
 | William Kitchiner - 1827 - 326 pages
...Death, even in the very vigour of Life, and under the vigilant exercise of every prudential measure. " Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state." " As the Lord liveth, and as thy Soul liveth, there is but one step... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...cease', Like a kind angel whisper peace', SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. HEAV'N from all creatures', hides the book of fate* ; All but the page prescnb'd', their present state* ; From brutes' what men*, from men' what Spirits know* ; Or who could... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...was in him, should dwell also in us." No. 291.] [THURSDAY. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state, Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...or there ? The bless 'd to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...Adaline, ask not that of me ; you know that a veil of mystery is darkly drawn over the future; "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state," and therefore, let us forget to think upon days which are yet to... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.—Burke. ccLxxvn. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed their present slate: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
