The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... hears me name *** with his first friend and favourite *** , not to mention *** nor *** . These people may cry ch - rch , ch - rch , as long as they please ; but , to make use of a homely proverb , " The proof of the p - dd - ng is in ...
... hears me name *** with his first friend and favourite *** , not to mention *** nor *** . These people may cry ch - rch , ch - rch , as long as they please ; but , to make use of a homely proverb , " The proof of the p - dd - ng is in ...
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... hear any more of Mr. Waitfort . I knew he had renounced me to all his friends , and been very witty upon my choice , which he affected to talk of with great indifferency . I gave over thinking of him , being told that he was engaged ...
... hear any more of Mr. Waitfort . I knew he had renounced me to all his friends , and been very witty upon my choice , which he affected to talk of with great indifferency . I gave over thinking of him , being told that he was engaged ...
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... hear this religious adept descant- ing on his pretended discovery . He talked of the secret as of a spirit which lived within an emerald , and converted every thing that was near it to the highest perfection it is capable of . It gives ...
... hear this religious adept descant- ing on his pretended discovery . He talked of the secret as of a spirit which lived within an emerald , and converted every thing that was near it to the highest perfection it is capable of . It gives ...
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... hear him , related to her his whole adventure . The body of the dervis which was found dead in the wood , and his edict for killing all the deer , left her no room to doubt of the truth of it ; but the story adds , that out of an ...
... hear him , related to her his whole adventure . The body of the dervis which was found dead in the wood , and his edict for killing all the deer , left her no room to doubt of the truth of it ; but the story adds , that out of an ...
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... hear farther from me . Celia is a little too hasty . Harriet is a good girl , but must not curtsy to folks she does not know . I must ingenuously confess my friend Samson Bentstaff has quite puzzled me , and writ me a long letter which ...
... hear farther from me . Celia is a little too hasty . Harriet is a good girl , but must not curtsy to folks she does not know . I must ingenuously confess my friend Samson Bentstaff has quite puzzled me , and writ me a long letter which ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon bailiff battle of Blenheim beauty body casuist cerning CICERO consider creature dear delight dervis desire divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair ladies fancy favours fear fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination inclinations Julius Cæsar kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours never night observed occasion OCTOBER 25 OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason says secret Shalum soul SPECTATOR stancy sure taborets tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told Tom Tyler took trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY whig whole widow wife words write young
Pasajes populares
Página 63 - 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 246 - 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 229 - 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 28 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
Página 41 - I write (whether I consist of all the same substance, material or immaterial, or no) that I was yesterday; for as to this point of being the same self, it matters not whether this present self be made up of the same or other substances...
Página 199 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Página 26 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, Content is natural wealth, says 20 Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial poverty.
Página 54 - 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 133 - ... we divide the soul into several powers and faculties, there is no such division in the soul itself, since it is the whole soul that remembers, understands, wills, or imagines. Our manner of considering the memory, understanding, will, imagination, and the like, faculties, is for the better enabling us to express ourselves in such abstracted subjects of speculation, not that there is any such division in the soul itself.
Página 10 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.