The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The GuardianE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... regard , Or wed , without the portion of reward ? IT is usual with polemical writers to object ill designs to their adversaries . This turns their arguments into satire , which , instead of shewing an error in the understanding , tends ...
... regard , Or wed , without the portion of reward ? IT is usual with polemical writers to object ill designs to their adversaries . This turns their arguments into satire , which , instead of shewing an error in the understanding , tends ...
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... regard for indifferent things . Thus mode and fashion defend the most absurd and unjust pro- ceedings , and nobody is out of countenance for doing what every body practises , though at the same time there is no one who is not convinced ...
... regard for indifferent things . Thus mode and fashion defend the most absurd and unjust pro- ceedings , and nobody is out of countenance for doing what every body practises , though at the same time there is no one who is not convinced ...
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... regard to each of these considerations , is set in a very agreeable light in one of the Persian fables of Pilpay , with which I shall end ' this paper . 6 A traveller passing through a thicket , and see- ing a few sparks of a fire ...
... regard to each of these considerations , is set in a very agreeable light in one of the Persian fables of Pilpay , with which I shall end ' this paper . 6 A traveller passing through a thicket , and see- ing a few sparks of a fire ...
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... regard our public schools and uni- versities , not only as nurseries of men for the service of the church and state , but also as places designed to teach mankind the most refined lux- ury , to raise the mind to its due perfection , and ...
... regard our public schools and uni- versities , not only as nurseries of men for the service of the church and state , but also as places designed to teach mankind the most refined lux- ury , to raise the mind to its due perfection , and ...
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... regards , reign in minds as yet untainted from the world . There , the stock of learning transmitted down from the ancients , is preserved , and receives a daily in- crease ; and it is thence propagated by men , who , having finished ...
... regards , reign in minds as yet untainted from the world . There , the stock of learning transmitted down from the ancients , is preserved , and receives a daily in- crease ; and it is thence propagated by men , who , having finished ...
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Page 275 - ... long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment ; behold, I have done according to thy words : lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Page 164 - He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, ha!" and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 173 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 165 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And, pawing, seems to beat the distant plain : Hills, vales, and floods appear already cross'd, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. See the bold youth strain up the threatening steep, Rush through the thickets, down the valleys sweep, Hang o'er their coursers' heads with eager speed, And...
Page 275 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 275 - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Page 305 - Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.
Page 174 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire...
Page 67 - Tom observed to me, that after having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties, by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song.
Page 237 - You shall not find the sons of Atreus here, Nor need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear. Strong from the cradle, of a sturdy brood, We bear our newborn infants to the flood; There bath'd amid the stream, our boys we hold, With winter harden'd, and inur'd to cold.