The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 - English essays |
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... tion , and give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing an hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of ...
... tion , and give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing an hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of ...
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... tion at their own houses . The hours of the day and night are taken up in the cities of London and Westminster , by people as different from each other as those who are born in different centuries . Men of six o'clock give way to those ...
... tion at their own houses . The hours of the day and night are taken up in the cities of London and Westminster , by people as different from each other as those who are born in different centuries . Men of six o'clock give way to those ...
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... tion from your paper , and in the general was very well pleased with it : but I am , without a compli- ment , sincerely troubled that I cannot exactly be of your opinion , that it makes every thing pleasing to us . In short , I have the ...
... tion from your paper , and in the general was very well pleased with it : but I am , without a compli- ment , sincerely troubled that I cannot exactly be of your opinion , that it makes every thing pleasing to us . In short , I have the ...
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... tion of which I avoid giving her the least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my ...
... tion of which I avoid giving her the least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my ...
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... tion of others ; and the wisdom , economy , good sense , and skill in human life before , by reason of his present misfortune , are of no use to him in the disposition of any thing . The incapacity of an infant or a lunatic is designed ...
... tion of others ; and the wisdom , economy , good sense , and skill in human life before , by reason of his present misfortune , are of no use to him in the disposition of any thing . The incapacity of an infant or a lunatic is designed ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 134 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...