The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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Page 33
... pleased to THINK , and keep their temper , how might the world be edified ! One might acquire as much useful knowledge by travelling post through England , as ever the philosophers of Athens did by lounging in their porticoes ; and our ...
... pleased to THINK , and keep their temper , how might the world be edified ! One might acquire as much useful knowledge by travelling post through England , as ever the philosophers of Athens did by lounging in their porticoes ; and our ...
Page 65
... pleased myself with the thoughts of the happy hours I should spend amidst these pastoral scenes , in reading , in meditation , or in soft repose , inspired by the lowing of distant herds , the falls of waters , and the melody of birds ...
... pleased myself with the thoughts of the happy hours I should spend amidst these pastoral scenes , in reading , in meditation , or in soft repose , inspired by the lowing of distant herds , the falls of waters , and the melody of birds ...
Page 67
... pleased , and more desirous of pleasing ; that is , happier in themselves , and civiller to each other . I observed the door was blocked up the whole night by a few fashionable young men , whose faces I re- membered to have seen about ...
... pleased , and more desirous of pleasing ; that is , happier in themselves , and civiller to each other . I observed the door was blocked up the whole night by a few fashionable young men , whose faces I re- membered to have seen about ...
Page 72
... pleased me not a little and I could not help thinking that it might afford a very excellent lesson to those of my fair readers , who are sometimes for indulging their curiosity upon occasions where it would be prudence to suppress it ...
... pleased me not a little and I could not help thinking that it might afford a very excellent lesson to those of my fair readers , who are sometimes for indulging their curiosity upon occasions where it would be prudence to suppress it ...
Page 118
... pleased with a descrip- tion of this scene , as given us by a celebrated genius of the present age : At the destin'd hour , By the loud trumpet summon'd to the charge , See all the formidable sons of fire , Eruptions , earthquakes ...
... pleased with a descrip- tion of this scene , as given us by a celebrated genius of the present age : At the destin'd hour , By the loud trumpet summon'd to the charge , See all the formidable sons of fire , Eruptions , earthquakes ...
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