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 14
... manner ; so that , since it runs in the blood , I have but small hopes of her recovery . I should be glad to have a little of your advice in this matter . I would not willingly trouble you to contrive how it may be a pleasure to me ; if ...
... manner ; so that , since it runs in the blood , I have but small hopes of her recovery . I should be glad to have a little of your advice in this matter . I would not willingly trouble you to contrive how it may be a pleasure to me ; if ...
Side 21
... manner as that of Mr. Dyer , Mr. Dawkes , or any other epistolary historian , might be highly gratifying to the public , as well as beneficial to the author . By whispers I mean those pieces of news which are communicated as secrets ...
... manner as that of Mr. Dyer , Mr. Dawkes , or any other epistolary historian , might be highly gratifying to the public , as well as beneficial to the author . By whispers I mean those pieces of news which are communicated as secrets ...
Side 25
... for persons whom they have but little friendship for , give recommendatory characters of men whom they are not acquainted with , bestow places on those VOL . XIII . whom they do not esteem , live in such manner No 458 . 25 SPECTATOR .
... for persons whom they have but little friendship for , give recommendatory characters of men whom they are not acquainted with , bestow places on those VOL . XIII . whom they do not esteem , live in such manner No 458 . 25 SPECTATOR .
Side 26
... manner , but that one who is in their company should be ashamed of governing him- self by the principles of reason and virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and ...
... manner , but that one who is in their company should be ashamed of governing him- self by the principles of reason and virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and ...
Side 35
... Manners . Thus slight- ed and despised by all , he was driven out for abusing people of merit and figure ; and I heard it firmly re- solved , that he should be used no better wherever they met with him hereafter . I had already seen the ...
... Manners . Thus slight- ed and despised by all , he was driven out for abusing people of merit and figure ; and I heard it firmly re- solved , that he should be used no better wherever they met with him hereafter . I had already seen the ...
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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.