The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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الصفحة 19
... shew you I am not a man inca- pable of bearing calamity , I will , though a poor man , lay aside the distinction between us , and talk with the frankness we did when we were nearer to an equality : as all I do will be received with ...
... shew you I am not a man inca- pable of bearing calamity , I will , though a poor man , lay aside the distinction between us , and talk with the frankness we did when we were nearer to an equality : as all I do will be received with ...
الصفحة 32
... shew them , fond to improve them , and to be esteemed for them . Then it is that a thousand unaccountable conceits , gay inventions , and extravagant actions , must afford us pleasures , and display us to others in the colours which we ...
... shew them , fond to improve them , and to be esteemed for them . Then it is that a thousand unaccountable conceits , gay inventions , and extravagant actions , must afford us pleasures , and display us to others in the colours which we ...
الصفحة 34
... shew , but an old coat of his ancestor's achievements . There was Ostentation , that made him- self his own constant subject , and Gallantry strutting upon his tiptoes . At the upper end of the hall stood a throne , whose canopy ...
... shew , but an old coat of his ancestor's achievements . There was Ostentation , that made him- self his own constant subject , and Gallantry strutting upon his tiptoes . At the upper end of the hall stood a throne , whose canopy ...
الصفحة 49
... shew its comparative lightness , immediately flew up and kicked the beam . But , before I proceed , I must inform my reader , that these weights did not exert their natural gravity till they were laid in the golden balance , insomuch ...
... shew its comparative lightness , immediately flew up and kicked the beam . But , before I proceed , I must inform my reader , that these weights did not exert their natural gravity till they were laid in the golden balance , insomuch ...
الصفحة 56
... shew the great excellency of faith , I shall here consider what are the proper means of strengthen- ing and confirming it in the mind of man . Those who delight in reading books of controversy , which are written on both sides of the ...
... shew the great excellency of faith , I shall here consider what are the proper means of strengthen- ing and confirming it in the mind of man . Those who delight in reading books of controversy , which are written on both sides of the ...
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الصفحة 93 - 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 ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
الصفحة 60 - 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.
الصفحة 88 - 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 shew me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
الصفحة 134 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
الصفحة 52 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
الصفحة 171 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
الصفحة 93 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
الصفحة 3 - Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise : II. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ?— But Thou canst read it there.
الصفحة 112 - ... every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him until he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodise his thoughts, has always, to borrow a phrase from...
الصفحة 16 - I passed this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; " The sons of public rapine were destroying." They told me, by the sentence of the law They had commission to seize all thy fortune : Nay, more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it. Here stood a ruffian, with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public...