The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volum 35 |
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... delightful than any thing that can be met with in the conversation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death he con ... delight thus to reside and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very re ...
... delightful than any thing that can be met with in the conversation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death he con ... delight thus to reside and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very re ...
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... delight I took in shewing the young flirts about town it was yet in my power to give pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made ...
... delight I took in shewing the young flirts about town it was yet in my power to give pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made ...
Side 62
... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are some time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , it is both a laudable and useful curiosity to get what in ...
... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are some time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , it is both a laudable and useful curiosity to get what in ...
Side 63
... delightful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious subject that can employ the mind of man - the omnipresence of the Deity ; a subject which , if possible , should never depart from our ...
... delightful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious subject that can employ the mind of man - the omnipresence of the Deity ; a subject which , if possible , should never depart from our ...
Side 71
... delightful in it- self , and beneficial to the public , than that of plant- ing . I could mention a nobleman whose ... delighted with his pro- ductions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . Plantations have one advantage in them ...
... delightful in it- self , and beneficial to the public , than that of plant- ing . I could mention a nobleman whose ... delighted with his pro- ductions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . Plantations have one advantage in them ...
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acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Populære avsnitt
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...