The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... hope you will invite the city into it , and desire those who have any thing by them relating to that part of natural history , to communicate it to , Sir , Your humble Servant , SIR , HUMPHRY BINICORN . I humbly beg leave to drop a song ...
... hope you will invite the city into it , and desire those who have any thing by them relating to that part of natural history , to communicate it to , Sir , Your humble Servant , SIR , HUMPHRY BINICORN . I humbly beg leave to drop a song ...
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... hope would have pleased , but was unluckily prevented by the presence of a bear , which constantly , as I ap- proached with my present , threw his eyes in my way , and stared me out of my resolution . I must not forget to tell you , my ...
... hope would have pleased , but was unluckily prevented by the presence of a bear , which constantly , as I ap- proached with my present , threw his eyes in my way , and stared me out of my resolution . I must not forget to tell you , my ...
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... hope the reader will pardon me for taking his eye from our present subject of the spring by this landscape , since it is at this time of the year only that prospects excel in beauty . But if the eye is de- lighted , the ear hath ...
... hope the reader will pardon me for taking his eye from our present subject of the spring by this landscape , since it is at this time of the year only that prospects excel in beauty . But if the eye is de- lighted , the ear hath ...
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... hope I have received some advan- tage by it . If what Mr. Waller says be true , that The soul's dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd , Lets in new light thro ' chinks that time has made ; then surely sickness , contributing no less than ...
... hope I have received some advan- tage by it . If what Mr. Waller says be true , that The soul's dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd , Lets in new light thro ' chinks that time has made ; then surely sickness , contributing no less than ...
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... hope you will not endure this Dumb club , for I am the unlucky spouse of one of those gentlemen ; and when my dear comes from this joyless society , I am an impertinent noisy rattle - snake , my maid is a saucy sow , the man is a thick ...
... hope you will not endure this Dumb club , for I am the unlucky spouse of one of those gentlemen ; and when my dear comes from this joyless society , I am an impertinent noisy rattle - snake , my maid is a saucy sow , the man is a thick ...
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Page 225 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Page 224 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 225 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 225 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Page 46 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 53 - ... of such a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit, the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily, and marry as fast, as they were used to do. The memory of man (as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom) passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 62 - And there we wrestled for the two greatest and dearest prizes we could ever expect trial for, honour and life. In which struggling my hand, having but an ordinary glove on it, lost one of her servants though the meanest; which hung by a skin, and to...
Page 68 - A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us.
Page 52 - Sickness is a sort of early old age ; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Page 53 - I am even as unconcerned as was that honest Hibernian, who being in bed in the great storm some years ago, and told the house would tumble over his head, made answer, " What care I for the house ? I am only a lodger.