The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... whole nation , if these wise advocates for morality were universally hearkened to ! Lastly , opportunities do sometimes offer , in which a man may wickedly make his for- tune or indulge a pleasure , without fear of temporal damage ...
... whole nation , if these wise advocates for morality were universally hearkened to ! Lastly , opportunities do sometimes offer , in which a man may wickedly make his for- tune or indulge a pleasure , without fear of temporal damage ...
Side 14
... whole story ( whereof I give but a short abstract ) my young neighbour appeared so touched , and discovered such certain marks of unfeigned love , that I cannot but be heartily sorry for them both . When he was gone , I sat down ...
... whole story ( whereof I give but a short abstract ) my young neighbour appeared so touched , and discovered such certain marks of unfeigned love , that I cannot but be heartily sorry for them both . When he was gone , I sat down ...
Side 16
... whole transacted in fairer and more open market than at present . How would it become you to put the laws in execution against forestallers , who take the young things of each sex before they are exposed to an honest sale , or the worth ...
... whole transacted in fairer and more open market than at present . How would it become you to put the laws in execution against forestallers , who take the young things of each sex before they are exposed to an honest sale , or the worth ...
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... whole play but what I would observe , by particularly pointing at these places , is , that such virtuous and mcral sentiments were never before put into the mouth of a British actor ; and I congratulate my countrymen on the virtue they ...
... whole play but what I would observe , by particularly pointing at these places , is , that such virtuous and mcral sentiments were never before put into the mouth of a British actor ; and I congratulate my countrymen on the virtue they ...
Side 27
... things that seemed incompatible , and must often remember the whole structure of a period , because , by the least transposition , that assemblage of words which is called a style , becomes utterly annihilated . D 2 60 . 27 THE GUARDIAN .
... things that seemed incompatible , and must often remember the whole structure of a period , because , by the least transposition , that assemblage of words which is called a style , becomes utterly annihilated . D 2 60 . 27 THE GUARDIAN .
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.