The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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Strana 6
... body be allowed to'- ? He had by this time filled a new pipe , and , applying it to his lips , when we ex- pected the last word of his sentence , put us off with a whiff of tobacco ; which he redoubled with so much rage and trepidation ...
... body be allowed to'- ? He had by this time filled a new pipe , and , applying it to his lips , when we ex- pected the last word of his sentence , put us off with a whiff of tobacco ; which he redoubled with so much rage and trepidation ...
Strana 9
... bodies that never return again to their former nature : but , with submission , they ought to throw into their account those innumerable rational beings which fetch their nourishment chiefly out of liquids ; especially when we consider ...
... bodies that never return again to their former nature : but , with submission , they ought to throw into their account those innumerable rational beings which fetch their nourishment chiefly out of liquids ; especially when we consider ...
Strana 11
... bodies and fortunes of men ; but these I shall reserve for the subject of some fu- ture paper . N ° 570. WEDNESDAY , JULY 21 , 1714 . -Nugaque canora . Chiming trifles . HOR . Ars Poet . ver . 322 . ROSCOMMON . THERE is scarcely a man ...
... bodies and fortunes of men ; but these I shall reserve for the subject of some fu- ture paper . N ° 570. WEDNESDAY , JULY 21 , 1714 . -Nugaque canora . Chiming trifles . HOR . Ars Poet . ver . 322 . ROSCOMMON . THERE is scarcely a man ...
Strana 18
... bodies , will by this faculty , in whatever part of space they reside , be always sensible of the Divine Presence . We , who have this veil of flesh standing between us and the world of spirits , must be content to know that the Spirit ...
... bodies , will by this faculty , in whatever part of space they reside , be always sensible of the Divine Presence . We , who have this veil of flesh standing between us and the world of spirits , must be content to know that the Spirit ...
Strana 22
... body else . Their medicines are infallible , and never fail of success- -that is , of enriching the doctor , and setting the patient effectually at rest . 6 I lately dropt into a public - house at Westmin . ster , where I found the room ...
... body else . Their medicines are infallible , and never fail of success- -that is , of enriching the doctor , and setting the patient effectually at rest . 6 I lately dropt into a public - house at Westmin . ster , where I found the room ...
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acquainted agreeable appear AUGUST 27 bacon battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist cave cerning CICERO consider creature delight desire discourse divine dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy favours fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give Gladio Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclination infinite kind king la Trappe lady Lancelot Addison letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbouring never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received Shalum sight sleep soul SPECTATOR sure taborets tell temper thing Thomas Britton thou thought tion Tirzah told trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
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Strana 256 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Strana 256 - 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 256 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Strana 46 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Strana 113 - That 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.
Strana 256 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Strana 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.
Strana 33 - This virtue does indeed produce, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind, body, or.
Strana 34 - ... 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 Socrates; to which I shall add, "Luxury is artificial poverty.