The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... speak of them with honour , and with that deference which is due to them from every private person . It gives a se- cret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works , that he is able to decypher them without help , and , by the ...
... speak of them with honour , and with that deference which is due to them from every private person . It gives a se- cret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works , that he is able to decypher them without help , and , by the ...
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... speak out , and declare my mind clearly , when I am talking for the good of my country . I will not make my court to an ill - man , though he were a B ―― y or a T -- t . Nay , I would not stick to call so wretched a politician a traitor ...
... speak out , and declare my mind clearly , when I am talking for the good of my country . I will not make my court to an ill - man , though he were a B ―― y or a T -- t . Nay , I would not stick to call so wretched a politician a traitor ...
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... speaking : This fellow , ' says he , cannot for his life keep out of politics . Do you see how he abuses four great men here ? ' fixed my eye very attentively on the paper , and asked him if he meant those who were represented by ...
... speaking : This fellow , ' says he , cannot for his life keep out of politics . Do you see how he abuses four great men here ? ' fixed my eye very attentively on the paper , and asked him if he meant those who were represented by ...
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... time . I cannot conclude this essay without observing that there never was any system besides that of Christianity which could effectually produce in the mind of man the virtue I have hitherto been speak 4 N ° 574 . 35 SPECTATOR .
... time . I cannot conclude this essay without observing that there never was any system besides that of Christianity which could effectually produce in the mind of man the virtue I have hitherto been speak 4 N ° 574 . 35 SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. mind of man the virtue I have hitherto been speak . ing of . In order to make us content with our pre- sent condition , many of the ancient philosophers tell us that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being ...
Alexander Chalmers. mind of man the virtue I have hitherto been speak . ing of . In order to make us content with our pre- sent condition , many of the ancient philosophers tell us that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being ...
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Sida 256 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Sida 256 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Sida 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Sida 256 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Sida 46 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Sida 113 - That there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Sida 256 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Sida 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Sida 33 - This virtue does indeed produce, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind, body, or.
Sida 34 - ... of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "Content is natural wealth," says Socrates; to which I shall add, "Luxury is artificial poverty.