The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... pretty wo- man and a great fortune ; it vexed me a little , but not enough to make me neglect the advice of my cousin Wishwell , that came to see me the day my lord went into the country with Russel ; she told me experimentally ...
... pretty wo- man and a great fortune ; it vexed me a little , but not enough to make me neglect the advice of my cousin Wishwell , that came to see me the day my lord went into the country with Russel ; she told me experimentally ...
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... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
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... pretty saying of Thales , Falsehood is just as far distant from truth as the ears are from the eyes * . ' By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the report of actions which he has not seen . I ...
... pretty saying of Thales , Falsehood is just as far distant from truth as the ears are from the eyes * . ' By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the report of actions which he has not seen . I ...
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... in favour with the fair sex . I am at present in the one - and- twentieth year of my age ; and should have made choice of a she bedfellow many years since , had not my father , who has a pretty good estate 124 No 596 . SPECTATOR .
... in favour with the fair sex . I am at present in the one - and- twentieth year of my age ; and should have made choice of a she bedfellow many years since , had not my father , who has a pretty good estate 124 No 596 . SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. not my father , who has a pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's fortune so much as marrying ...
Alexander Chalmers. not my father , who has a pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's fortune so much as marrying ...
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Страница 28 - 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.
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Страница 199 - 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 26 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, Content is natural wealth, says 20 Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial poverty.
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Страница 133 - ... we divide the soul into several powers and faculties, there is no such division in the soul itself, since it is the whole soul that remembers, understands, wills, or imagines. Our manner of considering the memory, understanding, will, imagination, and the like, faculties, is for the better enabling us to express ourselves in such abstracted subjects of speculation, not that there is any such division in the soul itself.
Страница 10 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.