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 31
... mankind can give a pretence why I should have been constant to the memory of any of the deceased , or have spent much time in grieving for an insolent , insignificant , negligent , extravagant , splenetic , or covetous husband ; - my ...
... mankind can give a pretence why I should have been constant to the memory of any of the deceased , or have spent much time in grieving for an insolent , insignificant , negligent , extravagant , splenetic , or covetous husband ; - my ...
Strana 34
... mankind to be always looking forward , and straining after one who has got the start of them in wealth and honour . For this reason , as there are none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich ...
... mankind to be always looking forward , and straining after one who has got the start of them in wealth and honour . For this reason , as there are none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich ...
Strana 69
... mankind , should prove detrimental to us , and that it should be made use of to scatter prejudice and ignorance through a people , instead of conveying to them truth and knowledge . 6 I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise ...
... mankind , should prove detrimental to us , and that it should be made use of to scatter prejudice and ignorance through a people , instead of conveying to them truth and knowledge . 6 I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise ...
Strana 72
... mankind . Most people are of the humour of an old fellow of a col- lege , who , when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors , grew very peevish : " We are always doing ...
... mankind . Most people are of the humour of an old fellow of a col- lege , who , when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors , grew very peevish : " We are always doing ...
Strana 73
... mankind . There is one consideration which may very much enforce what I have here said . Many ho- nest minds , that are naturally disposed to do good in the world , and become beneficial to mankind , complain within themselves that they ...
... mankind . There is one consideration which may very much enforce what I have here said . Many ho- nest minds , that are naturally disposed to do good in the world , and become beneficial to mankind , complain within themselves that they ...
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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.