The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلد 15 |
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... pains of his dis- solution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of ...
... pains of his dis- solution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in ful- ness of ...
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... I began to congratulate the present age upon the happiness men might reasonably hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated , and when pain itself would be of so short a duration 22 N ° 572 . SPECTATOR .
... I began to congratulate the present age upon the happiness men might reasonably hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated , and when pain itself would be of so short a duration 22 N ° 572 . SPECTATOR .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a story of an ingenious ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a story of an ingenious ...
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... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd ; The patron of his art refus'd his aid . " But now the goddess mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , hastens her relief . A ...
... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd ; The patron of his art refus'd his aid . " But now the goddess mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , hastens her relief . A ...
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... pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory it would be for me , and how I should be envied , made me accept of being third wife to my lord Friday . I proposed , from my rank and his ...
... pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory it would be for me , and how I should be envied , made me accept of being third wife to my lord Friday . I proposed , from my rank and his ...
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الصفحة 256 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
الصفحة 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
الصفحة 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
الصفحة 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
الصفحة 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
الصفحة 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
الصفحة 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.