The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumen16 |
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... eye upon the final purpose of the at- tempt , have wholly disregarded what should befall yourself in the prosecution of it ; thus has life risen to you , as fast as you resigned it , and every new hour , for having so frankly lent the ...
... eye upon the final purpose of the at- tempt , have wholly disregarded what should befall yourself in the prosecution of it ; thus has life risen to you , as fast as you resigned it , and every new hour , for having so frankly lent the ...
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... eyes downward , one big to hear , the other to speak a matter of great importance , sir Ambrose expressed himself to this effect : 6 My good friend , ' said he , you may have observed that from the first moment I was in your company at ...
... eyes downward , one big to hear , the other to speak a matter of great importance , sir Ambrose expressed himself to this effect : 6 My good friend , ' said he , you may have observed that from the first moment I was in your company at ...
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... eye upon a treatise , which I could not overlook with- out an inexcusable negligence , and want of concern for all the civil , as well as religious interests of mankind . This piece has for its title A Discourse of Free - thinking ...
... eye upon a treatise , which I could not overlook with- out an inexcusable negligence , and want of concern for all the civil , as well as religious interests of mankind . This piece has for its title A Discourse of Free - thinking ...
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... eyes . This conversation revives to us the memory of a friend , that was more than a brother to me ; of a husband , that was dearer than life to her : discourses about that dear and worthy man gene- rally send her to her closet , and me ...
... eyes . This conversation revives to us the memory of a friend , that was more than a brother to me ; of a husband , that was dearer than life to her : discourses about that dear and worthy man gene- rally send her to her closet , and me ...
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... eyes are disarmed , and we seldom after hear her mentioned but with indifference . What doubles my grief on this occasion is , that the more discreetly the lady behaves herself , the sooner is her glory extinguished . Now , madam , if ...
... eyes are disarmed , and we seldom after hear her mentioned but with indifference . What doubles my grief on this occasion is , that the more discreetly the lady behaves herself , the sooner is her glory extinguished . Now , madam , if ...
Términos y frases comunes
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Página 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Página 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Página 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Página 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
Página 101 - 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 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
Página 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
Página 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.