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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... means Marlborough , and T and an ☛ means Treasurer . YOL . XV . between them , has sold many insipid pamphlets . Nay.
... means Marlborough , and T and an ☛ means Treasurer . YOL . XV . between them , has sold many insipid pamphlets . Nay.
Side 3
... mean while I shall leave this with my curious reader , as some ingenious writers do their enigmas ; ani , i any sagacious person can fairly unriddle it , I will print his explanation , and , if he pleases , acquaint the world with his ...
... mean while I shall leave this with my curious reader , as some ingenious writers do their enigmas ; ani , i any sagacious person can fairly unriddle it , I will print his explanation , and , if he pleases , acquaint the world with his ...
Side 5
... mean by his pickle ? Why does he not write it at length , if he means honestly ? ' ' I have read over the whole sentence , ' says 1 ; but I look upon the parenthesis in the belly of it to be the most dangerous part , and as full of ...
... mean by his pickle ? Why does he not write it at length , if he means honestly ? ' ' I have read over the whole sentence , ' says 1 ; but I look upon the parenthesis in the belly of it to be the most dangerous part , and as full of ...
Side 6
... mean , ' says I , after those words , " the fleet that used to be the terror of the ocean , should be wind- bound ... means . ' ' No ! ' says he : - ' Your humble servant , sir ! ' Upon which he flung himself back in his chair after a ...
... mean , ' says I , after those words , " the fleet that used to be the terror of the ocean , should be wind- bound ... means . ' ' No ! ' says he : - ' Your humble servant , sir ! ' Upon which he flung himself back in his chair after a ...
Side 23
... skill , was very assiduous about the wound , and indeed was the only visible means that relieved the hero ; but the poet assures us it was the particular assistance of a deity that speeded the operation N ° 57 . SPECTATOR . 23.
... skill , was very assiduous about the wound , and indeed was the only visible means that relieved the hero ; but the poet assures us it was the particular assistance of a deity that speeded the operation N ° 57 . SPECTATOR . 23.
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 46 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.