The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... occasion re- quires , can tell you the slips of their great grand- mothers , and traduce the memory of honest coach- men that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall ...
... occasion re- quires , can tell you the slips of their great grand- mothers , and traduce the memory of honest coach- men that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall ...
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... occasion to reflect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill education , who has not been taught to deny any thing . This false ...
... occasion to reflect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill education , who has not been taught to deny any thing . This false ...
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... occasions . The same show of religion appears in all the foreign reformed churches , and enters so much in their ... occasion of it is certainly this . Those swarms of sectaries that over - ran the nation in the time of the great ...
... occasions . The same show of religion appears in all the foreign reformed churches , and enters so much in their ... occasion of it is certainly this . Those swarms of sectaries that over - ran the nation in the time of the great ...
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... occasion all my life to reflect upon the fatal consequences of following the suggestions of Vanity . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , ' I WRITE to you to desire , that you would again touch upon a certain enormity , which is chiefly in use among the ...
... occasion all my life to reflect upon the fatal consequences of following the suggestions of Vanity . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , ' I WRITE to you to desire , that you would again touch upon a certain enormity , which is chiefly in use among the ...
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... occasion , remarking on the excellent memories of those devotionists , who upon returning from church shall give a par- ticular account how two or three hundred people were dressed : a thing , by reason of its variety , so difficult to ...
... occasion , remarking on the excellent memories of those devotionists , who upon returning from church shall give a par- ticular account how two or three hundred people were dressed : a thing , by reason of its variety , so difficult to ...
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Página 99 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 64 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * 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 63 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 70 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. 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...
Página 174 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason, and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Página 71 - 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 12 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 294 - WHEN rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker, face to face, O how shall I appear!
Página 182 - 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.
Página 84 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.