The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 15 |
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... consideration might furnish us with many in- centives to devotion , and motives to morality ; but , as this subject has been handled by several excellent writers , I shall consider it in a light wherein I have not seen it placed by ...
... consideration might furnish us with many in- centives to devotion , and motives to morality ; but , as this subject has been handled by several excellent writers , I shall consider it in a light wherein I have not seen it placed by ...
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... consideration one would think sufficient to make us open our hearts to all those infusions of joy and gladness which are so near at hand , and ready to be poured in upon us ; especially when we consider , secondly , the deplo rable ...
... consideration one would think sufficient to make us open our hearts to all those infusions of joy and gladness which are so near at hand , and ready to be poured in upon us ; especially when we consider , secondly , the deplo rable ...
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... consideration ; he is very rich , and I am sure cannot live long ; he has a cough that must carry him off soon . I knew afterwards she had given the self - same character of me to him ; but however I was so much persuaded by her , I ...
... consideration ; he is very rich , and I am sure cannot live long ; he has a cough that must carry him off soon . I knew afterwards she had given the self - same character of me to him ; but however I was so much persuaded by her , I ...
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... shall add , Luxury is artificial poverty . ' I shall therefore recommend to the consideration of those who are always aiming after superfluous and 6 imaginary enjoyments , and will not be at the trou- 34 N ° 574 . SPECTATOR ,
... shall add , Luxury is artificial poverty . ' I shall therefore recommend to the consideration of those who are always aiming after superfluous and 6 imaginary enjoyments , and will not be at the trou- 34 N ° 574 . SPECTATOR ,
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... consideration took in all those who are sufficiently provided with the means to make themselves easy : this regards such as ac- tually lie under some pressure or misfortune . These may receive alleviation from such a compa- great rison ...
... consideration took in all those who are sufficiently provided with the means to make themselves easy : this regards such as ac- tually lie under some pressure or misfortune . These may receive alleviation from such a compa- great rison ...
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Страница 256 - 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 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
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 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Страница 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Страница 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Страница 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
Страница 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
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 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.