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 19
... sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of joy . We ' If we would be thus happy , and thus sensible of our Maker's presence , from the secret effects of his mercy and ...
... sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of joy . We ' If we would be thus happy , and thus sensible of our Maker's presence , from the secret effects of his mercy and ...
Strana 22
... sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy sideways , here was an infallible piece ...
... sight of so many inven- tions I could not but imagine myself in a kind of arsenal or magazine where store of arms was re- posited against any sudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the enemy sideways , here was an infallible piece ...
Strana 60
... sight of those objects , which were made to affect him by that Being who knows the inward frame of a soul , and how to please and ra vish it in all its most secret powers and faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may ...
... sight of those objects , which were made to affect him by that Being who knows the inward frame of a soul , and how to please and ra vish it in all its most secret powers and faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may ...
Strana 61
... sight and imagination , though it is highly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
... sight and imagination , though it is highly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
Strana 79
... sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds and the bleatings of my flocks make a pleasant echo in thy mountains , and sound sweetly in thy ears . What though I am delighted with the wavings of thy forests , and those breezes of ...
... sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds and the bleatings of my flocks make a pleasant echo in thy mountains , and sound sweetly in thy ears . What though I am delighted with the wavings of thy forests , and those breezes of ...
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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.