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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... observation so true , that I shall not enlarge upon it . One would wonder that more of our Christian poets have not turned their thoughts this way , especially if we con- sider , that our idea of the Supreme Being is not only infinitely ...
... observation so true , that I shall not enlarge upon it . One would wonder that more of our Christian poets have not turned their thoughts this way , especially if we con- sider , that our idea of the Supreme Being is not only infinitely ...
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... observe by their sailing , and the counte- nances of the ruddy virgins , who were supercargoes , the part of the town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning ...
... observe by their sailing , and the counte- nances of the ruddy virgins , who were supercargoes , the part of the town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning ...
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... observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pius , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged ...
... observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pius , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged ...
Side 12
... observed the great variety of improve ments in plants and flowers , beyond what they other- wise would have been , I ... observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion 12 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
... observed the great variety of improve ments in plants and flowers , beyond what they other- wise would have been , I ... observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion 12 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
Side 13
... observed , like their other perfumes , to be too strong , and to hurt the brain ; that of the French with glaring gaudy colours , yet faint and languid : German and northern flowers have little or no smell , or sometimes an unpleasant ...
... observed , like their other perfumes , to be too strong , and to hurt the brain ; that of the French with glaring gaudy colours , yet faint and languid : German and northern flowers have little or no smell , or sometimes an unpleasant ...
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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.