The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen3Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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... thing of this nature , he alludes to it only as to a fable . Many of our modern authors , whose learning very often extends no farther than Ovid's Metamor- phoses , do not know how to celebrate a great man , without mixing a parcel of ...
... thing of this nature , he alludes to it only as to a fable . Many of our modern authors , whose learning very often extends no farther than Ovid's Metamor- phoses , do not know how to celebrate a great man , without mixing a parcel of ...
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... things con- sist . We may speak much , and yet come short ; wherefore in sum , he is all . How shall we be able to magnify him ? For he is great above all his works . The Lord is terrible , and very great , and marvellous in his power ...
... things con- sist . We may speak much , and yet come short ; wherefore in sum , he is all . How shall we be able to magnify him ? For he is great above all his works . The Lord is terrible , and very great , and marvellous in his power ...
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... thing in life which lies at a great distance from us . shortness and uncertainty of our time here , makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd . The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after : where one man ...
... thing in life which lies at a great distance from us . shortness and uncertainty of our time here , makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd . The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after : where one man ...
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... things which are at too great a distance from us , it is possible that we may be intercepted by death in our progress towards them . If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the va lue , our disappointment will ...
... things which are at too great a distance from us , it is possible that we may be intercepted by death in our progress towards them . If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the va lue , our disappointment will ...
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... thing , about eighteen years of age , stepped out of her coach , and brushing by me , beckoned the man of the shop to the farther end of his counter , where she whispered something to him with an attentive look , and at the same time ...
... thing , about eighteen years of age , stepped out of her coach , and brushing by me , beckoned the man of the shop to the farther end of his counter , where she whispered something to him with an attentive look , and at the same time ...
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Página 80 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 221 - ... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 221 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 214 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 2 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Página 231 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 196 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Página 64 - I did not question came loaded with his crimes; but upon searching into his bundle I found that instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory.
Página 458 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Página 79 - ... material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.