The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 42 |
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... writers now living , my neighbour , who by the way has a hand in reviewing their works , assures me he can make nothing of them , and indeed I wonder that a man of his genius will have any thing to say to them . It was my custom to read ...
... writers now living , my neighbour , who by the way has a hand in reviewing their works , assures me he can make nothing of them , and indeed I wonder that a man of his genius will have any thing to say to them . It was my custom to read ...
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... writers of history thought no events worth recording to posterity but accounts of battles and sieges and the overthrow of empires ; as if men were to be celebrated only in proportion to the devastation they had made of the human species ...
... writers of history thought no events worth recording to posterity but accounts of battles and sieges and the overthrow of empires ; as if men were to be celebrated only in proportion to the devastation they had made of the human species ...
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... writers will act as carminatives to dispel the vapours ; books of travels as cathartics to procure a motion ; memoirs and novels will operate as provocatives , politics as corrosives , and panegyrics as emetics . Two compartments should ...
... writers will act as carminatives to dispel the vapours ; books of travels as cathartics to procure a motion ; memoirs and novels will operate as provocatives , politics as corrosives , and panegyrics as emetics . Two compartments should ...
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... tis found untrue . 24 If devious from thy paths I stray , And wickedness be found with me , Oh ! lead me back the better way To everlasting life and Thee . NUMBER LXI . THE deistical writers , who would fain 118 No 60 . OBSERVER .
... tis found untrue . 24 If devious from thy paths I stray , And wickedness be found with me , Oh ! lead me back the better way To everlasting life and Thee . NUMBER LXI . THE deistical writers , who would fain 118 No 60 . OBSERVER .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. NUMBER LXI . THE deistical writers , who would fain persuade us that the world was in possession of as pure a system of morality before the introduction of Christianity as since , affect to make a ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. NUMBER LXI . THE deistical writers , who would fain persuade us that the world was in possession of as pure a system of morality before the introduction of Christianity as since , affect to make a ...
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Página 139 - And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Página 173 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 211 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Página 284 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Página 147 - Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments ; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou.
Página 174 - And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the King In deadly hate the one against the other...
Página 178 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 183 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : — retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Página 140 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Página 153 - 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.