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In the mean while I shall leave this with my curious reader , as some ingenious
writers do their enigmas : and if any ... I hope this short essay will convince my
readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would
apply ...
In the mean while I shall leave this with my curious reader , as some ingenious
writers do their enigmas : and if any ... I hope this short essay will convince my
readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would
apply ...
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I must not omit acquainting my reader that this accomplished person was formerly
the master of a toy - shop near Temple - bar ; and that the famous Charles
Mathers was bred up under him . I am told that the misfortunes which he has met
with ...
I must not omit acquainting my reader that this accomplished person was formerly
the master of a toy - shop near Temple - bar ; and that the famous Charles
Mathers was bred up under him . I am told that the misfortunes which he has met
with ...
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But , in whichsoever of these two capacities I shine , I shall always desire to be
your constant reader , and ever will be “ Your most humble servant , ' J B . 6 SIR ,
UPON re Upon reading a Spectator last week , where Mrs . Fanny Fickle ...
But , in whichsoever of these two capacities I shine , I shall always desire to be
your constant reader , and ever will be “ Your most humble servant , ' J B . 6 SIR ,
UPON re Upon reading a Spectator last week , where Mrs . Fanny Fickle ...
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... in the Ovidian way , should first examine his heart well , and feel whether his
passions ( especially those of the gentler kind ) play easy ; since it is not his wit ,
but the delicacy and tenderness of his sentiments , that will affect his readers .
... in the Ovidian way , should first examine his heart well , and feel whether his
passions ( especially those of the gentler kind ) play easy ; since it is not his wit ,
but the delicacy and tenderness of his sentiments , that will affect his readers .
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I might here mention an ' epistolary poem , just published by Mr . Eusden , on the
king ' s accession to the throne ; wherein , amongst many other noble and
beautiful strokes of poetry , his reader may see this rule very happily observed .
I might here mention an ' epistolary poem , just published by Mr . Eusden , on the
king ' s accession to the throne ; wherein , amongst many other noble and
beautiful strokes of poetry , his reader may see this rule very happily observed .
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Page 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Page 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Page 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Page 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...
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| Title | The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36 The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, James Ferguson (advocate) |
| Author | British essayists |
| Editor | James Ferguson (advocate) |
| Published | 1819 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2007 |
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