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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... merits are lost in his poverty , than that in the words of the wise man : There was a little city , and few men within it ; and there came a great king against it , and besieged it , and built great bulwarks against it . Now there was ...
... merits are lost in his poverty , than that in the words of the wise man : There was a little city , and few men within it ; and there came a great king against it , and besieged it , and built great bulwarks against it . Now there was ...
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... merit . I am your convert in the admiration of what I thought you jested when you recommended ; and if you please to be at my house on Thursday next , I make a ball for my daughter , and you shall see her dance , or , if you will do her ...
... merit . I am your convert in the admiration of what I thought you jested when you recommended ; and if you please to be at my house on Thursday next , I make a ball for my daughter , and you shall see her dance , or , if you will do her ...
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Alexander Chalmers. commence till they were out of hearing . But by merit and superior excellencies , not only to gain , but whilst living , to enjoy a great and universal reputation , is the last degree of happiness which we can hope ...
Alexander Chalmers. commence till they were out of hearing . But by merit and superior excellencies , not only to gain , but whilst living , to enjoy a great and universal reputation , is the last degree of happiness which we can hope ...
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... merit of Manilius . There are many who are acceptable to some particular persons , whilst the rest of mankind look upon them with coldness and indifference ; but he is the first whose entire good fortune it is ever to please and to be ...
... merit of Manilius . There are many who are acceptable to some particular persons , whilst the rest of mankind look upon them with coldness and indifference ; but he is the first whose entire good fortune it is ever to please and to be ...
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... merit , for thy maintenance . It is natural for the generality of mankind to run into reflexions upon our mortality , when disturbers of the world are laid at rest , but to take no notice when they who can please and divert are pulled ...
... merit , for thy maintenance . It is natural for the generality of mankind to run into reflexions upon our mortality , when disturbers of the world are laid at rest , but to take no notice when they who can please and divert are pulled ...
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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.