The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... less mo- tives to honesty than the rest of their fellow sub- jects , who have all the inducements to the exercise of any virtue which a free - thinker can possibly have ; and besides that , the expectation of never- ending happiness ...
... less mo- tives to honesty than the rest of their fellow sub- jects , who have all the inducements to the exercise of any virtue which a free - thinker can possibly have ; and besides that , the expectation of never- ending happiness ...
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... less such exalted sentiments of virtue , in the dramatic performance of a contemporary . How elegant , just and virtuous is that reflection of Portius ! The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate , Puzzled in mazes , and perplex'd with ...
... less such exalted sentiments of virtue , in the dramatic performance of a contemporary . How elegant , just and virtuous is that reflection of Portius ! The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate , Puzzled in mazes , and perplex'd with ...
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... less advantage . The generality of readers , who are pleased with wandering over a number of books almost at the same instant , or , if confined to one , who pursue the author with much hurry and impatience to his last page , must ...
... less advantage . The generality of readers , who are pleased with wandering over a number of books almost at the same instant , or , if confined to one , who pursue the author with much hurry and impatience to his last page , must ...
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... less importance . I am , Sir , Your humble Servant . No. 61. THURSDAY , MAY 21 , 1713 . · Primúque è cæde ferarum Incaluisse putem maculatum sanguine ferrum . OVID . Met . xv . 10 . Th ' essay of bloody feasts on brutes began , And ...
... less importance . I am , Sir , Your humble Servant . No. 61. THURSDAY , MAY 21 , 1713 . · Primúque è cæde ferarum Incaluisse putem maculatum sanguine ferrum . OVID . Met . xv . 10 . Th ' essay of bloody feasts on brutes began , And ...
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... less am a por and miserable man . Therefore I con- clude , that whatever this thing be I call a soul , though it were a perishing , dying thing , and would not out- live the body , yet it were my wisdom and interest to prefer its ...
... less am a por and miserable man . Therefore I con- clude , that whatever this thing be I call a soul , though it were a perishing , dying thing , and would not out- live the body , yet it were my wisdom and interest to prefer its ...
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Página 169 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 169 - He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Página 262 - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Página 157 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Página 160 - I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Página 171 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th...
Página 158 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 262 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour : so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
Página 127 - They have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them ; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay without learning or much reading.
Página 172 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough : he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs. A spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.