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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Side 65
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Motion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Motion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
Side 70
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind . It is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind . It is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
Side 95
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? SIR , TO THE SPECTATOR . CREECH . I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading , or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and it ...
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? SIR , TO THE SPECTATOR . CREECH . I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading , or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and it ...
Side 118
... dress . MR . SPECTATOR , IT happened lately that a friend of mine , who had many things to buy for his family , would oblige me to walk with him to the shops . He was very nice in his way , and fond of having every thing shown ; which ...
... dress . MR . SPECTATOR , IT happened lately that a friend of mine , who had many things to buy for his family , would oblige me to walk with him to the shops . He was very nice in his way , and fond of having every thing shown ; which ...
Side 120
... dress of negligence , shall be but coldly received till he be proved by time , and established in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own know- ledge so very often , that we concluded the author ...
... dress of negligence , shall be but coldly received till he be proved by time , and established in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own know- ledge so very often , that we concluded the author ...
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Side 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Side 171 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Side 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Side 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Side 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Side 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Side 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Side 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Side 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
Side 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.