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 17
... reason of his present mis- fortune , are of no use to him in the disposition of any thing . The incapacity of an infant or a lunatic is designed for his provision and accommodation ; but that of a bankrupt , without any mitigation in ...
... reason of his present mis- fortune , are of no use to him in the disposition of any thing . The incapacity of an infant or a lunatic is designed for his provision and accommodation ; but that of a bankrupt , without any mitigation in ...
Side 18
... reason all wise law - givers have been extremely tender how they let loose even the man who has right on his side , to act with any mix- ture of resentment against the defendant . Virtuous and modest men , though they be used with some ...
... reason all wise law - givers have been extremely tender how they let loose even the man who has right on his side , to act with any mix- ture of resentment against the defendant . Virtuous and modest men , though they be used with some ...
Side 19
... reason , as well as kindness to me ) you cannot but be in pain to see me undone . To show you I am not a man inca- pable of bearing calamity , I will , though a poor man , lay aside the distinction between us , and talk with the ...
... reason , as well as kindness to me ) you cannot but be in pain to see me undone . To show you I am not a man inca- pable of bearing calamity , I will , though a poor man , lay aside the distinction between us , and talk with the ...
Side 25
... reason , because it acts to gratify others rather than itself , and is punished with a kind of remorse , not only like other vicious habits when the crime is over , but even at the very time that it is committed . · Nothing is more ...
... reason , because it acts to gratify others rather than itself , and is punished with a kind of remorse , not only like other vicious habits when the crime is over , but even at the very time that it is committed . · Nothing is more ...
Side 26
... 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 laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I ...
... 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 laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I ...
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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.