The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Том 35 |
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... married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy , esq . his next heir . I had indeed some thoughts of taking Mr. Waitfort , but I found he could stay ; and be- sides , he thought it indecent to ask me to marry again until my year was out ...
... married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy , esq . his next heir . I had indeed some thoughts of taking Mr. Waitfort , but I found he could stay ; and be- sides , he thought it indecent to ask me to marry again until my year was out ...
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... married him , and his first action afterwards was to set up a gilt chariot and six in fine trappings before and behind . I had married so hastily , I had not the prudence to reserve my estate in my own hands ; my ready money was lost in ...
... married him , and his first action afterwards was to set up a gilt chariot and six in fine trappings before and behind . I had married so hastily , I had not the prudence to reserve my estate in my own hands ; my ready money was lost in ...
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... her , I hastened on the match for fear he should die before the time came ; he had the same fears , and was so pressing , I married him in a fortnight , resolving to keep D 3 N ° 573 . 29 SPECTATOR . his Death UNKNOWN.
... her , I hastened on the match for fear he should die before the time came ; he had the same fears , and was so pressing , I married him in a fortnight , resolving to keep D 3 N ° 573 . 29 SPECTATOR . his Death UNKNOWN.
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... married a man I could never have thought on , if I had not lost all hopes of him . Good - natured Mr. Waitford had liked to have dropped down dead at hearing this , but went from me with such an air as plainly shewed me he had laid all ...
... married a man I could never have thought on , if I had not lost all hopes of him . Good - natured Mr. Waitford had liked to have dropped down dead at hearing this , but went from me with such an air as plainly shewed me he had laid all ...
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... marry him or no . I do not think of a seventh for the ridiculous reason you mention , but out of pure morality that I think so much constancy should be rewarded , though I may not do it after all per- haps . I do not believe all the ...
... marry him or no . I do not think of a seventh for the ridiculous reason you mention , but out of pure morality that I think so much constancy should be rewarded , though I may not do it after all per- haps . I do not believe all the ...
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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...