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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... face , And , when in sins and sorrows sunk , Reviv'd my soul with grace . IX . Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss Has made my cup run o'er , And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store . X. Ten thousand thousand ...
... face , And , when in sins and sorrows sunk , Reviv'd my soul with grace . IX . Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss Has made my cup run o'er , And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store . X. Ten thousand thousand ...
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... face , that all his family had died of thirst . All the mob have humour , and two or three began to take the jest ... faces , made the joy still rising till we came into the centre of the city , and centre of the world of trade , the ...
... face , that all his family had died of thirst . All the mob have humour , and two or three began to take the jest ... faces , made the joy still rising till we came into the centre of the city , and centre of the world of trade , the ...
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... face you see give you the satisfaction you now take in beholding that of a friend ; will make every object a pleasing one ; will make all the good which arrives to any man , an increase of happiness to your self . T. N ° 455. TUESDAY ...
... face you see give you the satisfaction you now take in beholding that of a friend ; will make every object a pleasing one ; will make all the good which arrives to any man , an increase of happiness to your self . T. N ° 455. TUESDAY ...
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... face , " Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate , Tumbled into a heap for public sale . There was another making villainous jests At thy undoing . He had ta'en possession Of all thy ancient most domestic ornaments : Rich hangings ...
... face , " Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate , Tumbled into a heap for public sale . There was another making villainous jests At thy undoing . He had ta'en possession Of all thy ancient most domestic ornaments : Rich hangings ...
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... face , to be your constant customers ; so that your advertise- ments will as much adorn the outward man , as your paper does the inward . ' T. N ° 462. WEDNESDAY , AUGUST 20 , 1712 . Nil ego prætulerim jucundo sanus amico . Nothing so ...
... face , to be your constant customers ; so that your advertise- ments will as much adorn the outward man , as your paper does the inward . ' T. N ° 462. WEDNESDAY , AUGUST 20 , 1712 . Nil ego prætulerim jucundo sanus amico . Nothing so ...
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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 ; 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 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. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
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 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
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 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
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 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.