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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... live . But before five in the afternoon I left the city , came to my common scene of Covent - garden , and passed the evening at Will's in attending the discourses of several sets of people , who relieved each other within my hearing on ...
... live . But before five in the afternoon I left the city , came to my common scene of Covent - garden , and passed the evening at Will's in attending the discourses of several sets of people , who relieved each other within my hearing on ...
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... lives in the contemplation of some withered Egyptian , Coptic , Armenian , or Chinese leaves ; while others made it their business to collect , in voluminous herbals , all the several leaves of some one tree . The flowers afford a most ...
... lives in the contemplation of some withered Egyptian , Coptic , Armenian , or Chinese leaves ; while others made it their business to collect , in voluminous herbals , all the several leaves of some one tree . The flowers afford a most ...
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... live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mo- ther , and I curse hers for making the ...
... live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mo- ther , and I curse hers for making the ...
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... they have but little friendship for , give recommendatory characters of men whom they are not acquainted with , bestow places on those VOL . XIII . D whom they do not esteem , live in such manner N ° 458 . 25 SPECTATOR .
... they have but little friendship for , give recommendatory characters of men whom they are not acquainted with , bestow places on those VOL . XIII . D whom they do not esteem , live in such manner N ° 458 . 25 SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. whom they do not esteem , live in such manner as they themselves do not approve , and all this merely because they have not the confidence to resist soli- citation , importunity , or example ! Nor does this false ...
Alexander Chalmers. whom they do not esteem , live in such manner as they themselves do not approve , and all this merely because they have not the confidence to resist soli- citation , importunity , or example ! Nor does this false ...
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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.