The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... nature . Hipparchus was going to marry a common woman ; but being resolved to do nothing without the advice of his friend Philander , he consulted him upon the occasion . Philander told him his mind freely , and represented his mistress ...
... nature . Hipparchus was going to marry a common woman ; but being resolved to do nothing without the advice of his friend Philander , he consulted him upon the occasion . Philander told him his mind freely , and represented his mistress ...
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... natural wilderness , and one of the uncultivated parts of our country . My flowers grow up in several parts of the ... natures will permit . I take in none that do not naturally re- joice in the soil ; and am pleased , when I am walk ...
... natural wilderness , and one of the uncultivated parts of our country . My flowers grow up in several parts of the ... natures will permit . I take in none that do not naturally re- joice in the soil ; and am pleased , when I am walk ...
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... nature , grow so thick in it , that you can- not imagine a more lively scene . The glowing red- ness of the berries , with which they are hung at this time , vies with the verdure of their leaves , and is apt to inspire the heart of the ...
... nature , grow so thick in it , that you can- not imagine a more lively scene . The glowing red- ness of the berries , with which they are hung at this time , vies with the verdure of their leaves , and is apt to inspire the heart of the ...
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... nature to be a laudable , if not a vir- tuous , habit of mind . For all which reasons I hope you will pardon the length of my present letter . C. ' I am , 6 Sir , & c . ' No 478. MONDAY , SEPT . 8 , 1712 . -Usus , HOR . Ars . Poet . v ...
... nature to be a laudable , if not a vir- tuous , habit of mind . For all which reasons I hope you will pardon the length of my present letter . C. ' I am , 6 Sir , & c . ' No 478. MONDAY , SEPT . 8 , 1712 . -Usus , HOR . Ars . Poet . v ...
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... nature , draw their subsistence ; though it is seldom seen that such as these are ex- tremely rich , because their original fault of being founded upon vanity , keeps them poor by the light inconstancy of its nature . The variableness ...
... nature , draw their subsistence ; though it is seldom seen that such as these are ex- tremely rich , because their original fault of being founded upon vanity , keeps them poor by the light inconstancy of its nature . The variableness ...
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302 페이지 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
60 페이지 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions...
69 페이지 - In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
301 페이지 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
60 페이지 - ... and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
68 페이지 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
16 페이지 - It must have been a fine Genius for Gardening, that could have thought of forming such an unsightly Hollow into so beautiful an Area, and to have hit the Eye with so uncommon and agreeable a Scene as that which it is now wrought into. To give this particular Spot of Ground the greater Effect, they have made a very pleasing Contrast ; for as on one Side of the Walk you see this hollow Basin, with its several little Plantations lying so conveniently under the Eye of the Beholder ; on the other Side...
189 페이지 - ... several legacies and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog that you know my poor master was so fond of.
68 페이지 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
195 페이지 - If after this we look into the several inward Perfections of Cunning and Sagacity, or what we generally call Instinct, we find them rising after the same manner, imperceptibly one above another, and receiving additional Improvements, according to the Species in which they are implanted. This Progress in Nature is so very gradual, that the most perfect of an inferior Species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it...