The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... honest coachmen that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall furnish out a very handsome news - letter . If you approve my project , I shall begin to whisper by the ...
... honest coachmen that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall furnish out a very handsome news - letter . If you approve my project , I shall begin to whisper by the ...
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... honesty by which he attained the honours he has enjoyed , and which now give a dignity and veneration to the ease he does enjoy . ' Tis here that he looks back with pleasure on the waves and billows through which he has steered to so ...
... honesty by which he attained the honours he has enjoyed , and which now give a dignity and veneration to the ease he does enjoy . ' Tis here that he looks back with pleasure on the waves and billows through which he has steered to so ...
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... honest mind , the best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gives a man of doing good . Those who are under the great officers of state , and are the instruments by which they act , have more frequent opportunities for the ...
... honest mind , the best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gives a man of doing good . Those who are under the great officers of state , and are the instruments by which they act , have more frequent opportunities for the ...
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... honest man will however look on all these methods as unjustifiable , and will enjoy himself better in a moderate ... honesty than men of the world . The chief reason for it I take to be as follows : A man that has spent his youth in ...
... honest man will however look on all these methods as unjustifiable , and will enjoy himself better in a moderate ... honesty than men of the world . The chief reason for it I take to be as follows : A man that has spent his youth in ...
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... . SPECTATOR , ng 16 S. P. I Am a man of a very good estate , an and am honourably in love . I hope you will allow , when VOL . XIII . K N. Y. BRUCE 26 West 421 the ultimate purpose is honest , there may be , N ° 473 . 97 SPECTATOR .
... . SPECTATOR , ng 16 S. P. I Am a man of a very good estate , an and am honourably in love . I hope you will allow , when VOL . XIII . K N. Y. BRUCE 26 West 421 the ultimate purpose is honest , there may be , N ° 473 . 97 SPECTATOR .
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Página 93 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Página 60 - 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 88 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 134 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Página 52 - 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 171 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Página 93 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 3 - Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise : II. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ?— But Thou canst read it there.
Página 112 - ... every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him until he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodise his thoughts, has always, to borrow a phrase from...
Página 16 - I passed this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; " The sons of public rapine were destroying." They told me, by the sentence of the law They had commission to seize all thy fortune : Nay, more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it. Here stood a ruffian, with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public...