The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Том 35 |
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... brought this piece of music to any tolerable per- * This man's name was Daintry . He was in the trained bands , and commonly known by the name of captain Daintry . fection . I then told him I would bring a 12 N : 570 . SPECTATOR .
... brought this piece of music to any tolerable per- * This man's name was Daintry . He was in the trained bands , and commonly known by the name of captain Daintry . fection . I then told him I would bring a 12 N : 570 . SPECTATOR .
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... brought , Which in the Cretan fields with care she sought ; Rough is the stem , which woolly leaves surround ; The leaves with flow'rs , the flow'rs with purple crown'd ; Well known to wounded goats ; a sure relief To draw the pointed ...
... brought , Which in the Cretan fields with care she sought ; Rough is the stem , which woolly leaves surround ; The leaves with flow'rs , the flow'rs with purple crown'd ; Well known to wounded goats ; a sure relief To draw the pointed ...
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... brought me in several letters ; and , among the rest , a long one from Mrs. President , as follows : < SMART SIR , You are pleased to be very merry , as you imagine , with us widows : and you seem to ground your satire on our receiving ...
... brought me in several letters ; and , among the rest , a long one from Mrs. President , as follows : < SMART SIR , You are pleased to be very merry , as you imagine , with us widows : and you seem to ground your satire on our receiving ...
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... brought me many lovers , and several endeavoured to estab- lish an interest in my heart , while my husband was in his last sickness : the honourable Edward Wait- fort was one of the first who addressed me , advised to it by a cousin of ...
... brought me many lovers , and several endeavoured to estab- lish an interest in my heart , while my husband was in his last sickness : the honourable Edward Wait- fort was one of the first who addressed me , advised to it by a cousin of ...
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... brought himself to submit even to the servile parts of that employment , such as in- specting his plough , and the like . This necessarily takes up some of his hours every day ; and , as I have no relish for such diversions , I used at ...
... brought himself to submit even to the servile parts of that employment , such as in- specting his plough , and the like . This necessarily takes up some of his hours every day ; and , as I have no relish for such diversions , I used at ...
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Страница 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Страница 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Страница 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Страница 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Страница 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Страница 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Страница 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Страница 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Страница 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Страница 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...