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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... town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning rakes , very unlike the seeming sobriety of those bound for Stocks - market . Nothing remarkable happened in our ...
... town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning rakes , very unlike the seeming sobriety of those bound for Stocks - market . Nothing remarkable happened in our ...
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... town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ours to make off , and he should hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to ...
... town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ours to make off , and he should hear where she went . This chace was now at end ; and the fellow who drove her came to ...
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... town . If you are alone with him in a wide room , he carries you up into a corner of it , and speaks in your ear . I have seen Peter seat himself in a company of seven or eight persons , whom he never saw before in his life ; and ...
... town . If you are alone with him in a wide room , he carries you up into a corner of it , and speaks in your ear . I have seen Peter seat himself in a company of seven or eight persons , whom he never saw before in his life ; and ...
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... town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you two - pence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so many of ...
... town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you two - pence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so many of ...
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... town his great capacity for acting in its full light , by introducing him as dictating to a set of young players , in what manner to speak this sentence , and utter t'other passion . He had so exquisite a discerning of what was ...
... town his great capacity for acting in its full light , by introducing him as dictating to a set of young players , in what manner to speak this sentence , and utter t'other passion . He had so exquisite a discerning of what was ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Página 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.
Página 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.