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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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 53
Sivu 7
... head , varies her posture , and changes place inces- santly , and all with an appearance of striving at the same time to hide herself , and yet give you to under- stand she is in humour to laugh at you . You must have often seen the ...
... head , varies her posture , and changes place inces- santly , and all with an appearance of striving at the same time to hide herself , and yet give you to under- stand she is in humour to laugh at you . You must have often seen the ...
Sivu 22
... heads bending over the table , and lying close to one another , it is ten to one but my friend Peter is among them . I have known Peter publish- ing the whisper of the day by eight o'clock in the morning at Garraway's , by twelve at ...
... heads bending over the table , and lying close to one another , it is ten to one but my friend Peter is among them . I have known Peter publish- ing the whisper of the day by eight o'clock in the morning at Garraway's , by twelve at ...
Sivu 25
... head who treated him . This has given me occasion to re- flect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill educa- tion , who has not ...
... head who treated him . This has given me occasion to re- flect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill educa- tion , who has not ...
Sivu 26
... head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot make without a secret concern . We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion . A well - bred man is obliged to conceal any serious ...
... head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot make without a secret concern . We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion . A well - bred man is obliged to conceal any serious ...
Sivu 28
... heads . The first comprehends what we are to believe , the other what we are to practise . By those things which we are to believe , I mean whatever is revealed to us in the holy writings , and which we could not have obtained the ...
... heads . The first comprehends what we are to believe , the other what we are to practise . By those things which we are to believe , I mean whatever is revealed to us in the holy writings , and which we could not have obtained the ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Sivu 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.