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 |
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... pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pius , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged myself , had not ...
... pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pius , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged myself , had not ...
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Alexander Chalmers. I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory , which is wrought into a play by Aristophanes the Greek comedian . It seems originally designed as a satire upon the rich , though , in some ...
Alexander Chalmers. I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory , which is wrought into a play by Aristophanes the Greek comedian . It seems originally designed as a satire upon the rich , though , in some ...
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... pretty , and as silly as she is , pretty . This idiot has a very good ear , and a most agreeable shape ; but the folly of the thing is such , that it smiles so impertinently , and affects to please so sillily , that while she dances you ...
... pretty , and as silly as she is , pretty . This idiot has a very good ear , and a most agreeable shape ; but the folly of the thing is such , that it smiles so impertinently , and affects to please so sillily , that while she dances you ...
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... pretty fellows will be very curious to understand what it is that I have been hitherto talking of . I shall therefore give them a notion of this practice , by endeavouring to write after the manner of several persons who make an eminent ...
... pretty fellows will be very curious to understand what it is that I have been hitherto talking of . I shall therefore give them a notion of this practice , by endeavouring to write after the manner of several persons who make an eminent ...
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... pretty cement of society and virtue . It is the ordinary foundation for men's holding a commerce with eạch other , and becoming familiar , that they agree in the same sort of pleasure ; and sure it may also be some reason for amity ...
... pretty cement of society and virtue . It is the ordinary foundation for men's holding a commerce with eạch other , and becoming familiar , that they agree in the same sort of pleasure ; and sure it may also be some reason for amity ...
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Стр. 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 ; 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.
Стр. 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. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Стр. 171 - 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. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Стр. 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.