The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Том 35 |
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... consider that men , compared with their fellow - creatures , drink much more than comes to their share . But , however highly this tribe of people may think of themselves , a drunken man is a greater monster than any that is to be found ...
... consider that men , compared with their fellow - creatures , drink much more than comes to their share . But , however highly this tribe of people may think of themselves , a drunken man is a greater monster than any that is to be found ...
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... consider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the same time to shew , that , as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be atten- tive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its existence : or , in other words ...
... consider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the same time to shew , that , as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be atten- tive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its existence : or , in other words ...
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... consider , secondly , the deplorable condition of an intellectual being , who feels no other effects from his Maker's presence , but such as proceed from di- vine wrath and indignation . ' We may assure ourselves that the great Author ...
... consider , secondly , the deplorable condition of an intellectual being , who feels no other effects from his Maker's presence , but such as proceed from di- vine wrath and indignation . ' We may assure ourselves that the great Author ...
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... consider how much he has more than he wants and secondly , how much more unhappy he might be than he really is . " 6 First of all a man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . I am wonder- fully pleased with the ...
... consider how much he has more than he wants and secondly , how much more unhappy he might be than he really is . " 6 First of all a man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . I am wonder- fully pleased with the ...
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... still new , and still beginning ; especially when we consider that our endeavours for making ourselves great , or rich , or honourable , or who whatever else we place our happiness in , may after 38 No 575 . SPECTATOR .
... still new , and still beginning ; especially when we consider that our endeavours for making ourselves great , or rich , or honourable , or who whatever else we place our happiness in , may after 38 No 575 . SPECTATOR .
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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...