The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... soul . In this case , when I look upon the debtor side , I find such innumerable articles , that I want arithmetic to cast them up ; but when I look upon the creditor side , I find little more than blank paper . Now , though I am very ...
... soul . In this case , when I look upon the debtor side , I find such innumerable articles , that I want arithmetic to cast them up ; but when I look upon the creditor side , I find little more than blank paper . Now , though I am very ...
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... soul , exalted like a god of wit , Among the Muses and the Graces writ . " This epigram I have opened more than any of the former ; the thought towards the latter end seemed closer couched , so as to require an explication . I fancied ...
... soul , exalted like a god of wit , Among the Muses and the Graces writ . " This epigram I have opened more than any of the former ; the thought towards the latter end seemed closer couched , so as to require an explication . I fancied ...
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... wonderful instance how great the capacity is of a human soul , and how inex- haustible the subject of its inquiries ; so true is that * Sir Isaac Newton . 6 remark in holy writ , that though a wise D 2 NO . 554 . 27 SPECTATOR .
... wonderful instance how great the capacity is of a human soul , and how inex- haustible the subject of its inquiries ; so true is that * Sir Isaac Newton . 6 remark in holy writ , that though a wise D 2 NO . 554 . 27 SPECTATOR .
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... soul is a kind of rough diamond , which requires art , labour , and time , to polish it . For want of which , many a good natural genius is lost , or lies unfashioned , like a jewel in the mine . " One of the strongest incitements to ...
... soul is a kind of rough diamond , which requires art , labour , and time , to polish it . For want of which , many a good natural genius is lost , or lies unfashioned , like a jewel in the mine . " One of the strongest incitements to ...
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... soul has , in this re- spect , a certain vegetative power which cannot lie wholly idle . If it is not laid out and cultivated into a regular and beautiful garden , it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wilder growth . " No ...
... soul has , in this re- spect , a certain vegetative power which cannot lie wholly idle . If it is not laid out and cultivated into a regular and beautiful garden , it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wilder growth . " No ...
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Page 340 - 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.
Page 340 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 156 - 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 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Page 81 - 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.
Page 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Page 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Page 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Page 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...