 | 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... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...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... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - Conspiracies - 1829 - 344 pages
...ANNO 1437, IN THE BLACKFRIARS' MONASTERY, PERTH. THE ASSASSINATION OP JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND. CHAPTER I. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirit* know, Or who would suffer... | |
 | 1829 - 132 pages
...reader's Most obedient, Most humble, And afflicted servant, London, May, 1829. C — . NARRATIVE, &c. &c. Heaven 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...late, or here or there? The blest to-day, is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. 9 Heaven 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... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...matter, soon or late, or here or there? The blest o-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 prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men, what spirits know Or who could suffer... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 pages
...sands of life, By fate's inviolable oath is swore Deep silence, where eternity begins." Pope says, " Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From beasts what men, from men what angels know, Or who could suffer... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...w '? v vuy7l/ yt, cup y//t.ftfv cu, wu* M PROVIDENCE VINDICATED IN THE PRESENT STATE OF MAN. 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... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...hope. Well said is it, indeed, by POPI, in his little profound treatise, the " Essay on Man,"— " Heaven, from all creatures, hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state. From brutes, what men, from men, what spirit» know, Or who could... | |
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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... 
