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 32
Sivu 10
... heard the streets in the pos- session of the bell - man , who had now the world to himself , and cry'd Past two o'clock . ' This roused me from my seat ; and I went to my lodgings , led by a light , whom I put into the discourse of his ...
... heard the streets in the pos- session of the bell - man , who had now the world to himself , and cry'd Past two o'clock . ' This roused me from my seat ; and I went to my lodgings , led by a light , whom I put into the discourse of his ...
Sivu 33
... heard of something that was valuable in himself , and expected a paradise which she pro- mised as the reward of his merit . Thus were we drawn to follow her , till she should bring us where it was to be bestowed ; and it was observable ...
... heard of something that was valuable in himself , and expected a paradise which she pro- mised as the reward of his merit . Thus were we drawn to follow her , till she should bring us where it was to be bestowed ; and it was observable ...
Sivu 35
... heard a voice in the crowd bemoaning the condition of man- kind , which is thus managed by the breath of Opinion , deluded by Error , fired by Self - Conceit , and given up to be trained in all the courses of Vanity , till Scorn or ...
... heard a voice in the crowd bemoaning the condition of man- kind , which is thus managed by the breath of Opinion , deluded by Error , fired by Self - Conceit , and given up to be trained in all the courses of Vanity , till Scorn or ...
Sivu 36
Alexander Chalmers. mighty noise was heard without , and the door was blackened by a numerous train of harpies crowding in upon us . Folly and Broken - Credit were seen in the house before they entered . Trouble , Shame , Infamy , Scorn ...
Alexander Chalmers. mighty noise was heard without , and the door was blackened by a numerous train of harpies crowding in upon us . Folly and Broken - Credit were seen in the house before they entered . Trouble , Shame , Infamy , Scorn ...
Sivu 53
Alexander Chalmers. poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . ' The middle condition seems to be the most ad- vantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the sup- plying ...
Alexander Chalmers. poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . ' The middle condition seems to be the most ad- vantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the sup- plying ...
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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.