The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 - English essays |
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... marks of his former spirit appeared , but they were short and transient emanations ; the basest of mankind had possession of his soul , and whether he was drugged by Sejanus and his agents , or that his brain was affected by a revulsion ...
... marks of his former spirit appeared , but they were short and transient emanations ; the basest of mankind had possession of his soul , and whether he was drugged by Sejanus and his agents , or that his brain was affected by a revulsion ...
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... marks , that true good - manners have set up for all men to steer by ! Jokes out of season , unpleasant truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses ...
... marks , that true good - manners have set up for all men to steer by ! Jokes out of season , unpleasant truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses ...
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Alexander Chalmers. Plain - speaking , if we consider it simply as a mark of truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society ...
Alexander Chalmers. Plain - speaking , if we consider it simply as a mark of truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society ...
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... Mark ! how she's girded by her watery zone , Whilst all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of war : Barriers and forts and arm'd battalions stand On the fierce confines of each rival state ...
... Mark ! how she's girded by her watery zone , Whilst all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of war : Barriers and forts and arm'd battalions stand On the fierce confines of each rival state ...
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... Mark ! how the sturdy peasant breasts the storm , The white snow sleeting o'er his brawny chest ; He heeds it not , but carols as he goes Some jocund measure or love - ditty , soon In sprightlier key and happier accent sung To the kind ...
... Mark ! how the sturdy peasant breasts the storm , The white snow sleeting o'er his brawny chest ; He heeds it not , but carols as he goes Some jocund measure or love - ditty , soon In sprightlier key and happier accent sung To the kind ...
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Page 110 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 213 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Page 93 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.