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 12
... lately met with . 6 . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house * accommodated us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a discourse with him ; and talking of a certain great man , who shall ...
... lately met with . 6 . I was the other day at a tavern , where the master of the house * accommodated us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a discourse with him ; and talking of a certain great man , who shall ...
Strana 22
... lately dropt into a public - house at Westmin . ster , where I found the room hung round with or- naments of this nature . There were elixirs , tinc- tures , the Anodyne Fotus , English pills , electua- ries , and in short more remedies ...
... lately dropt into a public - house at Westmin . ster , where I found the room hung round with or- naments of this nature . There were elixirs , tinc- tures , the Anodyne Fotus , English pills , electua- ries , and in short more remedies ...
Strana 44
... lately decried that custom , too much in use amongst most people , of making themselves the subjects of their writings and con- versation , that I had some difficulty to persuada myself to give you this trouble until I had consi- dered ...
... lately decried that custom , too much in use amongst most people , of making themselves the subjects of their writings and con- versation , that I had some difficulty to persuada myself to give you this trouble until I had consi- dered ...
Strana 48
... lately gave to our kinsman Blank , do humbly pray that you will put an end to the controversies which have been so long de- pending between us your said petitioners , and that our enmity may not endure from generation to gë- neration ...
... lately gave to our kinsman Blank , do humbly pray that you will put an end to the controversies which have been so long de- pending between us your said petitioners , and that our enmity may not endure from generation to gë- neration ...
Strana 50
Alexander Chalmers. read the other day in the Persian Tales , as they are lately very well translated by Mr. Philips ; and with an abridgement whereof I shall here present my readers . I shall only premise that these stories are writ ...
Alexander Chalmers. read the other day in the Persian Tales , as they are lately very well translated by Mr. Philips ; and with an abridgement whereof I shall here present my readers . I shall only premise that these stories are writ ...
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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.