The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volumen35 |
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... Fad- lallah ..... 579. On Adultery - Dogs which guarded the Temple of Vulcan .............. 580. On the Glories of Heaven ..... 581. The Author's Answer to his Corre- UNKNOWN . ADDISON . No. spondents ; Letters from a Lover and young Lady.
... Fad- lallah ..... 579. On Adultery - Dogs which guarded the Temple of Vulcan .............. 580. On the Glories of Heaven ..... 581. The Author's Answer to his Corre- UNKNOWN . ADDISON . No. spondents ; Letters from a Lover and young Lady.
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... heaven ? Luc . As the work I have engaged in will not only consist of papers of humour and learning , but of several essays moral and divine , I shall publish the follow- ing one which is founded on a former Spectator , and sent me by a ...
... heaven ? Luc . As the work I have engaged in will not only consist of papers of humour and learning , but of several essays moral and divine , I shall publish the follow- ing one which is founded on a former Spectator , and sent me by a ...
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... heavens and the earth , the stars and planets , move and gravitate by virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the pre- sence of their Creator , and made capable of exert- ing their ...
... heavens and the earth , the stars and planets , move and gravitate by virtue of this great principle within them . All the dead parts of nature are invigorated by the pre- sence of their Creator , and made capable of exert- ing their ...
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... heaven ; but the inhabitants of the former behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omni- potence incensed ...
... heaven ; but the inhabitants of the former behold him only in his wrath , and shrink within the flames to conceal themselves from him . It is not in the power of imagination to conceive the fearful effects of Omni- potence incensed ...
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... heaven behold him face to face , that is , are as sensible of his presence as we are of the presence of any person whom we look upon with our eyes . There is , doubtless , a faculty in spirits by which they apprehend one another as our ...
... heaven behold him face to face , that is , are as sensible of his presence as we are of the presence of any person whom we look upon with our eyes . There is , doubtless , a faculty in spirits by which they apprehend one another as our ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...