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 8
... hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to us , and discovered that he was ordered to come again in an hour , for that she was a silk- I was surprised with this phrase , but found it was a ...
... hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to us , and discovered that he was ordered to come again in an hour , for that she was a silk- I was surprised with this phrase , but found it was a ...
Side 20
... hear that you have heart enough to begin the world a second time . I assure you , I do not think your numerous family at all diminished ( in the gifts of nature , for which I have ever so much admired them ) by what has so lately ...
... hear that you have heart enough to begin the world a second time . I assure you , I do not think your numerous family at all diminished ( in the gifts of nature , for which I have ever so much admired them ) by what has so lately ...
Side 22
... hear people whispering it to one another at second - hand , and spreading it about as their own ; for you must know , sir , the great incentive to whispering is the ambition which every one has of being thought in the secret , and being ...
... hear people whispering it to one another at second - hand , and spreading it about as their own ; for you must know , sir , the great incentive to whispering is the ambition which every one has of being thought in the secret , and being ...
Side 35
... hear him . Vanity cast a scornful smile at him ; Self - Conceit was angry ; Flattery , who knew him for Plain - Dealing , put on a vizard , and turned away ; Affectation tossed her fan , made mouths , and called him Envy or Slander ...
... hear him . Vanity cast a scornful smile at him ; Self - Conceit was angry ; Flattery , who knew him for Plain - Dealing , put on a vizard , and turned away ; Affectation tossed her fan , made mouths , and called him Envy or Slander ...
Side 47
... hears his chariot roll , CLAUDI Smacks the vain whip , and shuns the fancy'd goal , Me too the Muses , in the silent night , With wonted chimes of jingling verse delight . I I WAS lately entertaining myself with comparing Homer's ...
... hears his chariot roll , CLAUDI Smacks the vain whip , and shuns the fancy'd goal , Me too the Muses , in the silent night , With wonted chimes of jingling verse delight . I I WAS lately entertaining myself with comparing Homer's ...
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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.