The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumes 5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... nature . But when there is added to it the sublime pleasure of devotion , our being is exalted above itself ; and he , who spends a seventh day in the contemplation of the next life , will not easily fall into the cor- ruptions of this ...
... nature . But when there is added to it the sublime pleasure of devotion , our being is exalted above itself ; and he , who spends a seventh day in the contemplation of the next life , will not easily fall into the cor- ruptions of this ...
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... nature for his eloquence , than to the instruction of the schools , or my lady's woman . From the two latter your scholar and page must have reaped all their advantage above him . - I know by this time you have pronounced me a trader ...
... nature for his eloquence , than to the instruction of the schools , or my lady's woman . From the two latter your scholar and page must have reaped all their advantage above him . - I know by this time you have pronounced me a trader ...
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... nature ; but become such out of an impotent ambition of being , what she never intended them , men of wit and conversation . I therefore think fit to declare , that according to the known laws of this land , a man may be a very honest ...
... nature ; but become such out of an impotent ambition of being , what she never intended them , men of wit and conversation . I therefore think fit to declare , that according to the known laws of this land , a man may be a very honest ...
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... nature ; but cer- tainly the mind of man , that is capable of so much higher contemplations , should not be altogether fixed upon such mean and disproportioned objects . Ob- servations of this kind are apt to alienate us too much from ...
... nature ; but cer- tainly the mind of man , that is capable of so much higher contemplations , should not be altogether fixed upon such mean and disproportioned objects . Ob- servations of this kind are apt to alienate us too much from ...
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... in anatomy , and my associate in the studies of nature , as an eternal monument of my affection and friendship for him , I bequeath My rat's testicles , and Whale's pizzle , to him and his issue male ; and in default 28 N ° 216 . TATLER .
... in anatomy , and my associate in the studies of nature , as an eternal monument of my affection and friendship for him , I bequeath My rat's testicles , and Whale's pizzle , to him and his issue male ; and in default 28 N ° 216 . TATLER .
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Page 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
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Page 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
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Page 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
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