The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... least a cheerful heart , That tastes those gifts with joy . XI . " Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorious theme renew . XII . When nature fails , and day and night 12 ...
... least a cheerful heart , That tastes those gifts with joy . XI . " Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorious theme renew . XII . When nature fails , and day and night 12 ...
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... least of my satisfaction in my survey , to go up stairs , and pass the shops of agreeable females : to observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of rib- bons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches ...
... least of my satisfaction in my survey , to go up stairs , and pass the shops of agreeable females : to observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of rib- bons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches ...
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... least are but annuals . Some pro- fessed florists make them their constant study and employment , and despise all fruit ; and now and then a few fanciful people spend all their time in the cultivation of a single tulip , or a carnation ...
... least are but annuals . Some pro- fessed florists make them their constant study and employment , and despise all fruit ; and now and then a few fanciful people spend all their time in the cultivation of a single tulip , or a carnation ...
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... least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against pa- rents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mother ...
... least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against pa- rents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mother ...
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... least injury , are cautious of ex- acting the utmost justice . Let any one who is conversant in the variety of human life reflect upon it , and he will find the man who wants mercy has a taste of no enjoy- ment of any kind . There is a ...
... least injury , are cautious of ex- acting the utmost justice . Let any one who is conversant in the variety of human life reflect upon it , and he will find the man who wants mercy has a taste of no enjoy- ment of any kind . There is a ...
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Página 99 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 64 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 63 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 70 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole...
Página 174 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason, and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Página 71 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Página 12 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 294 - WHEN rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker, face to face, O how shall I appear!
Página 182 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 84 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.