The British Essayists, Volume 13Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... proper attitude to receive the next jolt . As she was an excellent coach - woman , many were the glances at each other which we had for an hour and a half , in all parts of the town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady ...
... proper attitude to receive the next jolt . As she was an excellent coach - woman , many were the glances at each other which we had for an hour and a half , in all parts of the town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady ...
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... proper manuring , necessary pruning , and an artful management of our tender inclinations and first spring of life . These obvious speculations made me at length conclude , that there is a sort of vegetable principle in the mind of ...
... proper manuring , necessary pruning , and an artful management of our tender inclinations and first spring of life . These obvious speculations made me at length conclude , that there is a sort of vegetable principle in the mind of ...
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... proper behaviour in theatres , may be some instance of its incongruity in the above - mentioned places . In Roman - catholic churches aud chapels abroad , I myself have observed , more than once , persons of the first quality , of the ...
... proper behaviour in theatres , may be some instance of its incongruity in the above - mentioned places . In Roman - catholic churches aud chapels abroad , I myself have observed , more than once , persons of the first quality , of the ...
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... proper for writing on such a subject , I earnestly recommend this to you ; and am , Ꭲ . Sir , Your very humble servant . ' N ° 461. TUESDAY , AUGUST 19 , 1712 . -Sed non ego credulis illus . VIRG . Ecl . ix . 34 . But I discern their ...
... proper for writing on such a subject , I earnestly recommend this to you ; and am , Ꭲ . Sir , Your very humble servant . ' N ° 461. TUESDAY , AUGUST 19 , 1712 . -Sed non ego credulis illus . VIRG . Ecl . ix . 34 . But I discern their ...
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... proper lights . Profaneness , lewdness , and debauchery , are not now qualifications ; and a man may be a very fine gentleman , though he is neither a keeper nor an infidel . I would have you tell the town the story of the Sibyls , if ...
... proper lights . Profaneness , lewdness , and debauchery , are not now qualifications ; and a man may be a very fine gentleman , though he is neither a keeper nor an infidel . I would have you tell the town the story of the Sibyls , if ...
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Page 54 - ... in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think...
Page 74 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 73 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 148 - 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.
Page 68 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 28 - In counterpoise ; now ponders all events, Battles, and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight : The latter quick up flew and kick'd the beam...
Page i - If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties which proceed more immediately from his hand, but even those benefits which are conveyed to us by others. Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be deVOL. TL — 18* rived upon us, is the gift of him who is the great author of good, and father of mercies.
Page 39 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 54 - Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page ii - 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.