The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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Side 27
... widow of that standing , I married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy , esq . his next heir . I had indeed some thoughts of taking Mr. Waitfort , but I found he could stay ; and be- sides , he thought it indecent to ask me to marry ...
... widow of that standing , I married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy , esq . his next heir . I had indeed some thoughts of taking Mr. Waitfort , but I found he could stay ; and be- sides , he thought it indecent to ask me to marry ...
Side 57
... widow who lived on the promontory of Lilybeum , returned home pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says ...
... widow who lived on the promontory of Lilybeum , returned home pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says ...
Side 76
... widow ; though no one was so likely to succeed in her affections as her first lover Shalum , who renewed his court to her about ten years after the death of Harpath ; for it was not thought decent in those days that a widow should be ...
... widow ; though no one was so likely to succeed in her affections as her first lover Shalum , who renewed his court to her about ten years after the death of Harpath ; for it was not thought decent in those days that a widow should be ...
Side 108
... widow . What advances a lover may presume to make , after having received a pat upon his shoulder from his mistress's fan . Whether a lady , at the first interview , may allow an humble servant to kiss her hand . How far it may be ...
... widow . What advances a lover may presume to make , after having received a pat upon his shoulder from his mistress's fan . Whether a lady , at the first interview , may allow an humble servant to kiss her hand . How far it may be ...
Side 154
... widow within three weeks after having rendered himself formidable in the cities of London and Westminster . Scouring and breaking of windows have done frequent execution upon the sex . But there is no set of these male charmers who make ...
... widow within three weeks after having rendered himself formidable in the cities of London and Westminster . Scouring and breaking of windows have done frequent execution upon the sex . But there is no set of these male charmers who make ...
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Side 63 - 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 246 - 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 229 - 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 28 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Side 41 - I write (whether I consist of all the same substance, material or immaterial, or no) that I was yesterday; for as to this point of being the same self, it matters not whether this present self be made up of the same or other substances...
Side 199 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Side 26 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, Content is natural wealth, says 20 Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial poverty.
Side 54 - 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 133 - ... we divide the soul into several powers and faculties, there is no such division in the soul itself, since it is the whole soul that remembers, understands, wills, or imagines. Our manner of considering the memory, understanding, will, imagination, and the like, faculties, is for the better enabling us to express ourselves in such abstracted subjects of speculation, not that there is any such division in the soul itself.
Side 10 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.