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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... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
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... virtues are choaked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
... virtues are choaked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
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... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the hu- mour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashionable . The latter is ...
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the hu- mour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashionable . The latter is ...
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... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
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... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , whilst we are distinguished by so many thousand humours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , whilst we are distinguished by so many thousand humours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
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Página 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 171 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Página 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Página 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Página 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Página 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Página 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
Página 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.