The British Essayists, 8권Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... according to his office he dealt much in intelligence ; and doubted not but there was some foundation for his reports of the rest of the com- pany , as well as for the whimsical account he gave of me . The next morning at day - break we ...
... according to his office he dealt much in intelligence ; and doubted not but there was some foundation for his reports of the rest of the com- pany , as well as for the whimsical account he gave of me . The next morning at day - break we ...
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... according to true discipline , than an auk- ward school - boy does to make use of his new sword . I have sent for her on purpose to learn the exercise , she being already very well accomplished in all other arts which are necessary for ...
... according to true discipline , than an auk- ward school - boy does to make use of his new sword . I have sent for her on purpose to learn the exercise , she being already very well accomplished in all other arts which are necessary for ...
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... ACCORDING to the request of this strange fellow , I shall print the following letter . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ⚫ I SHALL without any manner of preface or apo- logy acquaint you , that I am , and ever have been from my youth upward , one of ...
... ACCORDING to the request of this strange fellow , I shall print the following letter . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ⚫ I SHALL without any manner of preface or apo- logy acquaint you , that I am , and ever have been from my youth upward , one of ...
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... according as the circumstances vary . Besides all this , he is so suspicious , that he submits himself to the drudgery of a spy . He is as unhappy himself as he makes his servants : he is constantly watching us , and we differ no more ...
... according as the circumstances vary . Besides all this , he is so suspicious , that he submits himself to the drudgery of a spy . He is as unhappy himself as he makes his servants : he is constantly watching us , and we differ no more ...
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... according to that excellent divine ' I will enter upon the matter , or in his words , in his fifteenth sermon of the folio edition , page 160 , - " I shall briefly explain the words , and then con- sider the matter contained in them ...
... according to that excellent divine ' I will enter upon the matter , or in his words , in his fifteenth sermon of the folio edition , page 160 , - " I shall briefly explain the words , and then con- sider the matter contained in them ...
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123 페이지 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
141 페이지 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
123 페이지 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
126 페이지 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
125 페이지 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
217 페이지 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
122 페이지 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
217 페이지 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
130 페이지 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
122 페이지 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.