The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 11-12 |
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... species of affliction , and con- fine their tenderness to them , since it is impossible to assist all who are presented to them . The pro- poser had been relieved from a malady in his eyes by an operation , performed by Sir William Read ...
... species of affliction , and con- fine their tenderness to them , since it is impossible to assist all who are presented to them . The pro- poser had been relieved from a malady in his eyes by an operation , performed by Sir William Read ...
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... species under any par- ticular oppression , we should look upon it as arising from the common lot of human nature , rather than from the guilt of the person who suffers . Another consideration , that may check our pre- sumption in ...
... species under any par- ticular oppression , we should look upon it as arising from the common lot of human nature , rather than from the guilt of the person who suffers . Another consideration , that may check our pre- sumption in ...
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... species , I am very glad to find that those who approve my conduct in this particular , are much more numerous than those who condemn it . A large family of daughters have drawn me up a very hand- some remonstrance , in which they set ...
... species , I am very glad to find that those who approve my conduct in this particular , are much more numerous than those who condemn it . A large family of daughters have drawn me up a very hand- some remonstrance , in which they set ...
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... species , with design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment , have in that action bound themselves to be good - humoured , affable , discreet , forgiving , pa- tient , and joyful , with respect to each other's frail- ties ...
... species , with design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment , have in that action bound themselves to be good - humoured , affable , discreet , forgiving , pa- tient , and joyful , with respect to each other's frail- ties ...
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... species , to my country , and to my religion , in having produced such a number of reasonable creatures , citizens , and Christians . I am pleased to see myself thus per- petuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a ...
... species , to my country , and to my religion , in having produced such a number of reasonable creatures , citizens , and Christians . I am pleased to see myself thus per- petuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a ...
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Page 234 - 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 20 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 14 - I HAVE SET THE LoRD ALWAYS BEFORE ME : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 8 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Page 94 - These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 313 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 14 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 207 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Page 82 - 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 114 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...