The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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Side v
... tion of the Supreme Being ......... ADDISON . 572. On Quacks 573. Letter from the President of the Club of Widows .......... PEARCE . 574. Advantages of Content .... ........ ADDISON , 575. The present Life preparatory to the Happiness ...
... tion of the Supreme Being ......... ADDISON . 572. On Quacks 573. Letter from the President of the Club of Widows .......... PEARCE . 574. Advantages of Content .... ........ ADDISON , 575. The present Life preparatory to the Happiness ...
Side 10
... tion to reason , whose business it is to clear the mind every vice which is crept into it , and to guard it against all the approaches of any that endeavours to make its entrance . But besides these ill effects which this vice produces ...
... tion to reason , whose business it is to clear the mind every vice which is crept into it , and to guard it against all the approaches of any that endeavours to make its entrance . But besides these ill effects which this vice produces ...
Side 33
... tion , with regard to the community wherein he is placed . It gives sweetness to his conversation , and a perpetual serenity to all his thoughts . Among the many methods which might be made use of for the acquiring of this virtue , I ...
... tion , with regard to the community wherein he is placed . It gives sweetness to his conversation , and a perpetual serenity to all his thoughts . Among the many methods which might be made use of for the acquiring of this virtue , I ...
Side 37
... tion ; or to secure to ourselves the pleasures of a life which is fixed and settled , and will never end ? Every man , upon the first hearing of this question , knows very well which side of it he ought to close with . But however right ...
... tion ; or to secure to ourselves the pleasures of a life which is fixed and settled , and will never end ? Every man , upon the first hearing of this question , knows very well which side of it he ought to close with . But however right ...
Side 46
... tion . I was in no less confusion , and begged par- don for having disturbed them ; addressing myself particularly to comfort one of the children who re- ceived an unlucky fall in this action , while he was too intently surveying my ...
... tion . I was in no less confusion , and begged par- don for having disturbed them ; addressing myself particularly to comfort one of the children who re- ceived an unlucky fall in this action , while he was too intently surveying my ...
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Side 256 - 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 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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 114 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
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 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
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 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Side 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!