The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... be tolerated in me , if they considered that the greatest pleasure I know I receive at my eyes , and that I am obliged to an agreeable person for coming abroad into my view , as another is for a visit в 3 N ° 454 . SPECTATOR .
... be tolerated in me , if they considered that the greatest pleasure I know I receive at my eyes , and that I am obliged to an agreeable person for coming abroad into my view , as another is for a visit в 3 N ° 454 . SPECTATOR .
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... greatest part of morality ( as I have stated the notion of it ) is of a fixed eternal na- ture , and will endure when faith shall fail , and be lost in conviction . Secondly , Because a person may be qualified to do greater good to ...
... greatest part of morality ( as I have stated the notion of it ) is of a fixed eternal na- ture , and will endure when faith shall fail , and be lost in conviction . Secondly , Because a person may be qualified to do greater good to ...
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... no article of faith can be true and authentic ; which weakens or subverts the practical part of religion , or what I have hitherto called mo- rality . Thirdly , That the greatest friend of morality and natural 30 N ° 459 . SPECTATOR .
... no article of faith can be true and authentic ; which weakens or subverts the practical part of religion , or what I have hitherto called mo- rality . Thirdly , That the greatest friend of morality and natural 30 N ° 459 . SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. Thirdly , That the greatest friend of morality and natural religion cannot possibly apprehend any danger from embracing Christianity , as it is preserved pure and uncorrupt in the doctrines of our national church ...
Alexander Chalmers. Thirdly , That the greatest friend of morality and natural religion cannot possibly apprehend any danger from embracing Christianity , as it is preserved pure and uncorrupt in the doctrines of our national church ...
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... greatest ease imaginable , all suggestions of jealousy ; and the people could not entertain notions of any thing terrible in him , whom they saw every way agreeable . This scrap of the familiar part of that prince's history I thought ...
... greatest ease imaginable , all suggestions of jealousy ; and the people could not entertain notions of any thing terrible in him , whom they saw every way agreeable . This scrap of the familiar part of that prince's history I thought ...
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Page 60 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 172 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 3 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
Page 193 - ... the state of his soul, whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month and hour of the day it happened ; how it was carried on, and when completed ? The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death...
Page 171 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.