The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volum 35 |
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... appears more despicable and de- formed , in the eyes of all reasonable persons , than that of a drunkard . Bonosus , one of our own country- men , who was addicted to this vice , having set up for a share in the Roman empire , and being ...
... appears more despicable and de- formed , in the eyes of all reasonable persons , than that of a drunkard . Bonosus , one of our own country- men , who was addicted to this vice , having set up for a share in the Roman empire , and being ...
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... appear- ing fashionable . This ran him into many amours , and consequently into many distempers . He never went to ... appearing singular ; for which reason it is very necessary to form a right idea of singularity , that we may know when ...
... appear- ing fashionable . This ran him into many amours , and consequently into many distempers . He never went to ... appearing singular ; for which reason it is very necessary to form a right idea of singularity , that we may know when ...
Side 60
... appears in perfect majesty , we cannot possibly con- ceive . Though it is not infinite , it may be indefi- nite ; and , though not immeasurable in itself , it may be so with regard to any created eye or imagina- tion . If he has made ...
... appears in perfect majesty , we cannot possibly con- ceive . Though it is not infinite , it may be indefi- nite ; and , though not immeasurable in itself , it may be so with regard to any created eye or imagina- tion . If he has made ...
Side 64
... appear abstruse to most people , it is sufficient if I am un- derstood by my particular correspondents . My well - wisher Van Nath is very arch , but not quite enough so to appear in print . Philadelphus will , in a little time , see ...
... appear abstruse to most people , it is sufficient if I am un- derstood by my particular correspondents . My well - wisher Van Nath is very arch , but not quite enough so to appear in print . Philadelphus will , in a little time , see ...
Side 72
... appear more delightful in every succeeding year than they did in the fore- going . But I do not only recommend this art to men of estates as a pleasing amusement , but as it is a kind of virtuous employment , and may therefore be in ...
... appear more delightful in every succeeding year than they did in the fore- going . But I do not only recommend this art to men of estates as a pleasing amusement , but as it is a kind of virtuous employment , and may therefore be in ...
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Side 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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 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 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Side 113 - ... 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 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
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 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Side 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...