The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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Pagina 13
... matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon yours ? This indeed is not to be aimed at by one who has a genius no higher than to think of being a very good ...
... matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon yours ? This indeed is not to be aimed at by one who has a genius no higher than to think of being a very good ...
Pagina 28
... matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in contemplations on the world of life , by which I mean all those animals with which every ...
... matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in contemplations on the world of life , by which I mean all those animals with which every ...
Pagina 29
... matter af- fording proper necessaries and conveniences for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it . The author * of the Plurality of Worlds draws a very good argument from this consideration for the peopling of every planet ; as ...
... matter af- fording proper necessaries and conveniences for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it . The author * of the Plurality of Worlds draws a very good argument from this consideration for the peopling of every planet ; as ...
Pagina 30
... matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die , upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There ...
... matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die , upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There ...
Pagina 31
... matter , at least what falls within our knowledge , that does not swarm with life . Nor is his goodness less seen in the diversity than in the multitude of living creatures . Had he only made one species of animals , none of the rest ...
... matter , at least what falls within our knowledge , that does not swarm with life . Nor is his goodness less seen in the diversity than in the multitude of living creatures . Had he only made one species of animals , none of the rest ...
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Pagina 249 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 131 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 130 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 33 - Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 20 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Pagina 22 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Pagina 244 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty, which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded, and disposed among softer lights, than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Pagina 248 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Pagina 222 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.
Pagina 249 - ... omniscience every uncomfortable thought vanishes. He cannot but regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion : for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...