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 9
... creatures , drink much more than comes to their share . But , however highly this tribe of people may think of themselves , a drunken man is a greater monster than any that is to be found among all the creatures which God has made ; as ...
... creatures , drink much more than comes to their share . But , however highly this tribe of people may think of themselves , a drunken man is a greater monster than any that is to be found among all the creatures which God has made ; as ...
Strana 11
... creature . I shall here confine myself to that petty kind of ambition , by which some men grow eminent for odd accomplishments and trivial performances . How many are there whose whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You ...
... creature . I shall here confine myself to that petty kind of ambition , by which some men grow eminent for odd accomplishments and trivial performances . How many are there whose whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You ...
Strana 16
... creatures ; but though he cannot withdraw his es- sence from us , which would argue an imperfection in him , he can withdraw from us all the joys and consolations of it . His presence may perhaps be necessary to support us in our ...
... creatures ; but though he cannot withdraw his es- sence from us , which would argue an imperfection in him , he can withdraw from us all the joys and consolations of it . His presence may perhaps be necessary to support us in our ...
Strana 17
... creatures . Those who will not feel him in his love will be sure at length to feel him in his displeasure . And how dreadful is the condition of that creature , who is only sensible of the being of his Creator by what he suffers from ...
... creatures . Those who will not feel him in his love will be sure at length to feel him in his displeasure . And how dreadful is the condition of that creature , who is only sensible of the being of his Creator by what he suffers from ...
Strana 19
... creatures . Even in the hour of death he considers the pains of his dis- solution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him ...
... creatures . Even in the hour of death he considers the pains of his dis- solution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him ...
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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.