The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Том 35 |
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... fall most unmercifully upon all the consonants . This way of writing was first of all introduced by T - m Br - wn , * of face- tious memory , who , after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels , used to plant it in ...
... fall most unmercifully upon all the consonants . This way of writing was first of all introduced by T - m Br - wn , * of face- tious memory , who , after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels , used to plant it in ...
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... falling to the ground with a very easy and regular descent . He then contracted his whistle to the voice of several birds of the smallest size . As he is a man of larger bulk and higher stature than ordinary , you would fancy him a ...
... falling to the ground with a very easy and regular descent . He then contracted his whistle to the voice of several birds of the smallest size . As he is a man of larger bulk and higher stature than ordinary , you would fancy him a ...
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... , and melancholy , from the person on whom it falls . In short , ' says he , ' its presence na- turally changes every place into a kind of heaven . " 6 After he had gone on for some time in this 32 N ° 574 . SPECTATOR .
... , and melancholy , from the person on whom it falls . In short , ' says he , ' its presence na- turally changes every place into a kind of heaven . " 6 After he had gone on for some time in this 32 N ° 574 . SPECTATOR .
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... fall from the mainmast , told the standers - by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck . To which , since I am got into quotations , give me leave to add the saying of an old philosopher , who , after having invited , some of ...
... fall from the mainmast , told the standers - by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck . To which , since I am got into quotations , give me leave to add the saying of an old philosopher , who , after having invited , some of ...
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... fall short even of that age ? How would he be lost in horror and admiration , when he should know that this set of creatures , who lay out all their endeavours for this life , which scarce deserves the name of exist- ence - when , I say ...
... fall short even of that age ? How would he be lost in horror and admiration , when he should know that this set of creatures , who lay out all their endeavours for this life , which scarce deserves the name of exist- ence - when , I say ...
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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...
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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.
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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...