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 10
... serve to alarm the world against her in ordinary life , as mine , I hope , did those who shall behold her at church . The letter was written last winter to the lady who gave it me ; and I doubt not but you will find it the soul of an ...
... serve to alarm the world against her in ordinary life , as mine , I hope , did those who shall behold her at church . The letter was written last winter to the lady who gave it me ; and I doubt not but you will find it the soul of an ...
Pagina 14
... serve at the altars of the God of Peace . The massacres to which the church of Rome has animated the ordinary people are dreadful in- stances of the truth of this observation ; and whoever reads the history of the Irish rebellion , and ...
... serve at the altars of the God of Peace . The massacres to which the church of Rome has animated the ordinary people are dreadful in- stances of the truth of this observation ; and whoever reads the history of the Irish rebellion , and ...
Pagina 16
... serve his interests ; while , with the noble art of hypocrisy , empire would be to be extended , and new conquests be made by new de- vices , by which prompt address his creatures might insensibly give law in the business of life , by ...
... serve his interests ; while , with the noble art of hypocrisy , empire would be to be extended , and new conquests be made by new de- vices , by which prompt address his creatures might insensibly give law in the business of life , by ...
Pagina 21
... served up according to custom ; and you know he used to take great delight in it . From that time forward he grew worse and worse , but still kept a good heart to the last . Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery , upon a ...
... served up according to custom ; and you know he used to take great delight in it . From that time forward he grew worse and worse , but still kept a good heart to the last . Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery , upon a ...
Pagina 24
... serve up is a letter come fresh to my hand . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , IT is with inexpressible sorrow that I hear of the death of good sir Roger , and do heartily condole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have ...
... serve up is a letter come fresh to my hand . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , IT is with inexpressible sorrow that I hear of the death of good sir Roger , and do heartily condole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have ...
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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...