The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 13 |
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Pagina 3
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
Pagina 17
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
Pagina 18
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
Pagina 23
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . ' Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a month- ly pamphlet , which I ...
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . ' Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a month- ly pamphlet , which I ...
Pagina 26
... consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will sug- gest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
... consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will sug- gest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
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