The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volumen35 |
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... reason , whose business it is to clear the mind of every vice which is crept into it , and to guard it against all the approaches of any that endeavours to make its entrance . But besides these ill effects which this vice produces in ...
... reason , whose business it is to clear the mind of every vice which is crept into it , and to guard it against all the approaches of any that endeavours to make its entrance . But besides these ill effects which this vice produces in ...
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... reasons for all his pains , and prescriptions for every fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption ; to shorten the ...
... reasons for all his pains , and prescriptions for every fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption ; to shorten the ...
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... reason to repent I had not staid for him ; he had married me for my money , and I soon found he loved money to distraction ; there was nothing he would not do to get it : nothing he would not suffer to preserve it ; the smallest expence ...
... reason to repent I had not staid for him ; he had married me for my money , and I soon found he loved money to distraction ; there was nothing he would not do to get it : nothing he would not suffer to preserve it ; the smallest expence ...
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... reason you mention , but out of pure morality that I think so much constancy should be rewarded , though I may not do it after all per- haps . I do not believe all the unreasonable malice of mankind can give a pretence why I should have ...
... reason you mention , but out of pure morality that I think so much constancy should be rewarded , though I may not do it after all per- haps . I do not believe all the unreasonable malice of mankind can give a pretence why I should have ...
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... reason , as there are none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes , and ...
... reason , as there are none can be properly called rich who have not more than they want , there are few rich men in any of the politer nations , but among the middle sort of people , who keep their wishes within their fortunes , and ...
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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...