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 - English essays |
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... leave to allow myself no respite from labour . Ir is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or significancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an endless ...
... leave to allow myself no respite from labour . Ir is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or significancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an endless ...
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... the hackney- coachmen of the foregoing night took their leave of each other at the Dark - House , to go to bed before the day was too far spent . Chimney - sweepers passed by us as we made up to the market , 6 N ° 454 . SPECTATOR .
... the hackney- coachmen of the foregoing night took their leave of each other at the Dark - House , to go to bed before the day was too far spent . Chimney - sweepers passed by us as we made up to the market , 6 N ° 454 . SPECTATOR .
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... leave that variety of objects . I took coach and followed a young lady , who tripped into another just before me , attended by her maid . I saw imme- diately she was of the family of the Vainloves .. There are a set of these , who , of ...
... leave that variety of objects . I took coach and followed a young lady , who tripped into another just before me , attended by her maid . I saw imme- diately she was of the family of the Vainloves .. There are a set of these , who , of ...
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... leaves , which are words ; and in due season the flowers begin to appear in variety of beautiful colours , and all ... leaves before mentioned , and found almost as great a variety among them , as in the vegetable world . I could easily ...
... leaves , which are words ; and in due season the flowers begin to appear in variety of beautiful colours , and all ... leaves before mentioned , and found almost as great a variety among them , as in the vegetable world . I could easily ...
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... leaves , without any hopes of flower or fruit . The leaves of some were fragrant and well - shaped , and others ill - scented and irregular . I wondered at a set of old whimsical botanists , who spent their whole lives in the ...
... leaves , without any hopes of flower or fruit . The leaves of some were fragrant and well - shaped , and others ill - scented and irregular . I wondered at a set of old whimsical botanists , who spent their whole lives in the ...
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Page 60 - And nightly to the list'ning 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 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...
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 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 172 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 3 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
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 193 - ... the state of his soul, whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month and hour of the day it happened ; how it was carried on, and when completed ? The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death...
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.