The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... hope this short essay will convince my readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a master of the political scratch as any the ...
... hope this short essay will convince my readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a master of the political scratch as any the ...
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... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated , and when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated , and when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
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... hope you would not have had me cry out my eyes for such a husband . I shed tears enough for my widowhood a week after my marriage ; and when he was put in his grave , reckoning he had been two years dead , and myself a widow of that ...
... hope you would not have had me cry out my eyes for such a husband . I shed tears enough for my widowhood a week after my marriage ; and when he was put in his grave , reckoning he had been two years dead , and myself a widow of that ...
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... hope . The following question is started by one of the schoolmen : -Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand , and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every ...
... hope . The following question is started by one of the schoolmen : -Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand , and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every ...
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... hope , with very little foundation . My short history is this . ' I have lived for some years last past altogether in London , until about a month ago an acquaintance of mine , for whom I have done some small services in town , invited ...
... hope , with very little foundation . My short history is this . ' I have lived for some years last past altogether in London , until about a month ago an acquaintance of mine , for whom I have done some small services in town , invited ...
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Page 238 - 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Page 238 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.\ Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Page 66 - 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.
Page 184 - What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? was the result of a laudable ambition.
Page 146 - Pleasure to look at, twas Music to hear. But now she is absent, I walk by its Side, And still, as it murmurs, do nothing but chide: 'Must you be so cheerful, while I go in pain? Peace there with your bubbling, and hear me complain.
Page 58 - 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.
Page 256 - 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?
Page 38 - I say, might give itself up to that happiness which is at hand, considering that it is so very near, and that it would last so very long. But when the choice we actually have before us is this, whether we will...
Page 194 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 146 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...