The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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Side 14
... contrive how it may be a pleasure to me ; if you will but put me in a way that I may bear it with indiffe rence , I shall rest satisfied . Dear Spec , Your very humble servant . ' P. S. I must do the poor girl the 14 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
... contrive how it may be a pleasure to me ; if you will but put me in a way that I may bear it with indiffe rence , I shall rest satisfied . Dear Spec , Your very humble servant . ' P. S. I must do the poor girl the 14 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
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... rest of the world will regard me for yours . There is a happy contagion in riches , as well as a destructive one in poverty : the rich can make rich without parting with any of their store ; and the conversation of the poor makes men ...
... rest of the world will regard me for yours . There is a happy contagion in riches , as well as a destructive one in poverty : the rich can make rich without parting with any of their store ; and the conversation of the poor makes men ...
Side 41
... rest of our daily writers , to defame you in public conversation , and strive to make you unpopu- lar upon the account of this said halfpenny . But , if I were you , I would insist upon that small acknow- ledgment for the superior merit ...
... rest of our daily writers , to defame you in public conversation , and strive to make you unpopu- lar upon the account of this said halfpenny . But , if I were you , I would insist upon that small acknow- ledgment for the superior merit ...
Side 43
... rest of the world with welcome wherever he appears . It is very ordinary with those of this character to be attentive only to their own satisfactions , and have very little bowels for the concerns or sorrows of other men ; nay , they ...
... rest of the world with welcome wherever he appears . It is very ordinary with those of this character to be attentive only to their own satisfactions , and have very little bowels for the concerns or sorrows of other men ; nay , they ...
Side 56
... rest , and to be disquieted with any former perplexity , when it appears in a new shape , or is started by a different hand . As nothing is more laudable than an enquiry after truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our ...
... rest , and to be disquieted with any former perplexity , when it appears in a new shape , or is started by a different hand . As nothing is more laudable than an enquiry after truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our ...
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Side 84 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Side 90 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Side 167 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Side 49 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: 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 166 - 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.
Side 158 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Side 158 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Side 56 - 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 56 - 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...
Side 89 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.