The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... person . But I interrupt you too long from your cares , and myself from my conquests . I am , madam , Your most humble servant . " ' Give me leave , Mr. Spectator , to add her friend's answer to this epistle , who is a very discreet ...
... person . But I interrupt you too long from your cares , and myself from my conquests . I am , madam , Your most humble servant . " ' Give me leave , Mr. Spectator , to add her friend's answer to this epistle , who is a very discreet ...
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... my opinion the finest that I ever met with upon this occasion . You know , sir , it is usual , after having told us the name of the person who lies VOL . IX . c interred , to launch out into his praises . This No. 518 . 25 . SPECTATOR .
... my opinion the finest that I ever met with upon this occasion . You know , sir , it is usual , after having told us the name of the person who lies VOL . IX . c interred , to launch out into his praises . This No. 518 . 25 . SPECTATOR .
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... person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei supremi . Qualis erat dies iste indicabit . " " Here lieth R. C. in expectation of the last day . What sort of a man he was that day will discover . " I ...
... person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei supremi . Qualis erat dies iste indicabit . " " Here lieth R. C. in expectation of the last day . What sort of a man he was that day will discover . " I ...
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... person , the mechanism of his dress , the disposition of his limbs , the manner of his gait and air , with a number ... persons concerned in them , you will do a work very becoming the British Spec- tator No. 518 . SPECTATOR .
... person , the mechanism of his dress , the disposition of his limbs , the manner of his gait and air , with a number ... persons concerned in them , you will do a work very becoming the British Spec- tator No. 518 . SPECTATOR .
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... persons most sus ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it . Norwich , 7 Octobris , 1712 . I. I ...
... persons most sus ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it . Norwich , 7 Octobris , 1712 . I. I ...
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Side 249 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Side 131 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side 130 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Side 33 - Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Side 20 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Side 22 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Side 244 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty, which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded, and disposed among softer lights, than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Side 248 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Side 222 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.
Side 249 - ... omniscience every uncomfortable thought vanishes. He cannot but regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion : for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...