“The” Spectator, Volume 6J. Parsons, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 25
... able to read , should I over- look some excellent pieces lately come out . My Lord Bishop of St. ASAPH has just now published some Ser- mons , the Preface to which seems to me to determine a great point . He has , like a good man , and ...
... able to read , should I over- look some excellent pieces lately come out . My Lord Bishop of St. ASAPH has just now published some Ser- mons , the Preface to which seems to me to determine a great point . He has , like a good man , and ...
Page 26
... able to make for these many years last past , upon our public affairs , and from the natural tendency of several prin- ciples and practices , that have of late been studiously revived , and from what has followed thereupon , I could not ...
... able to make for these many years last past , upon our public affairs , and from the natural tendency of several prin- ciples and practices , that have of late been studiously revived , and from what has followed thereupon , I could not ...
Page 29
... able only to promise and presage its future glories and successes , from the good appearances of things , and the happy turn our affairs began to take ; and could not then count up the victories and triumphs , that for seven years after ...
... able only to promise and presage its future glories and successes , from the good appearances of things , and the happy turn our affairs began to take ; and could not then count up the victories and triumphs , that for seven years after ...
Page 30
... able ministry , the payments of a willing and most obedient people , as well as all the glorious toils and hazards of the soldiery ; when God for our sins , permitted the spirit of discord to go forth , and by troubling sore the camp ...
... able ministry , the payments of a willing and most obedient people , as well as all the glorious toils and hazards of the soldiery ; when God for our sins , permitted the spirit of discord to go forth , and by troubling sore the camp ...
Page 36
... able to live with all kinds of dispositions , because it argues a mind that lies open to receive what is pleasing to others , and not obstinate- ly bent on any particularity of his own . This is it which makes me pleased with the ...
... able to live with all kinds of dispositions , because it argues a mind that lies open to receive what is pleasing to others , and not obstinate- ly bent on any particularity of his own . This is it which makes me pleased with the ...
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