The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... lives in a state of vice and impenitence can have no title to that evenness and tranquillity of mind which is the health of the soul and the na- tural effect of virtue and innocence . Cheerfulness in an ill man deserves a harder name ...
... lives in a state of vice and impenitence can have no title to that evenness and tranquillity of mind which is the health of the soul and the na- tural effect of virtue and innocence . Cheerfulness in an ill man deserves a harder name ...
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... lives in a state of vice and impenitence can have no title to that evenness and tranquillity of mind which is the health of the soul and the na- tural effect of virtue and innocence . Cheerfulness in an ill man deserves a harder name ...
... lives in a state of vice and impenitence can have no title to that evenness and tranquillity of mind which is the health of the soul and the na- tural effect of virtue and innocence . Cheerfulness in an ill man deserves a harder name ...
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... live in good humour , and enjoy his present existence , who is apprehensive either of torment or of annihilation ; of being miser- able , or of not being at all . After having mentioned these two great principles , which are destructive ...
... live in good humour , and enjoy his present existence , who is apprehensive either of torment or of annihilation ; of being miser- able , or of not being at all . After having mentioned these two great principles , which are destructive ...
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... live ac- cording to the dictates of virtue and right reason has two perpetual sources of cheerfulness , in the consideration of his own nature , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks into himself , he cannot but ...
... live ac- cording to the dictates of virtue and right reason has two perpetual sources of cheerfulness , in the consideration of his own nature , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks into himself , he cannot but ...
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... live , the latest of which was preached about eight years since , and the first above seventeen , will make it very natural for people to inquire into the occasion of doing so ; and to such I do very willingly assign these following ...
... live , the latest of which was preached about eight years since , and the first above seventeen , will make it very natural for people to inquire into the occasion of doing so ; and to such I do very willingly assign these following ...
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Page 201 - care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. ir. ' When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant; To fertile
Page 201 - and dewy meads My weary, wand'ring steps he leads; . Where peaceful rivers, soft, and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. III. « Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My stedfast heart shall fear no ill,
Page 107 - inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and
Page vii - always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not
Page 107 - more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with, its ideas; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy,
Page 201 - 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. ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on
Page 8 - as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe; that London bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the seven wonders of the world ; with many other honest
Page 131 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 198 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber ; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings
Page 8 - You must know," says sir Roger, ' I never make use of any body to row me, that has not lost either a leg or an arm. I would rather bate him a few strokes of his oar than not employ an honest man that has been wounded in the queen's service. If I was a lord