The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 - English essays |
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... delightful than any thing that can be met with in the conversation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death he con ... delight thus to reside and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very re ...
... delightful than any thing that can be met with in the conversation of his creatures . Even in the hour of death he con ... delight thus to reside and dwell in us . The light of nature could direct Seneca to this doctrine , in a very re ...
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... delight I took in shewing the young flirts about town it was yet in my power to give pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made ...
... delight I took in shewing the young flirts about town it was yet in my power to give pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made ...
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... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are some time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , it is both a laudable and useful curiosity to get what in ...
... delight in inqui- ries concerning any foreign country , where we are some time or other to make our abode ; and as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place , it is both a laudable and useful curiosity to get what in ...
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... delightful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious subject that can employ the mind of man - the omnipresence of the Deity ; a subject which , if possible , should never depart from our ...
... delightful place . I have in this , and in two foregoing letters , treated on the most serious subject that can employ the mind of man - the omnipresence of the Deity ; a subject which , if possible , should never depart from our ...
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... delightful in it- self , and beneficial to the public , than that of plant- ing . I could mention a nobleman whose ... delighted with his ductions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . pro- Plantations have one advantage in them ...
... delightful in it- self , and beneficial to the public , than that of plant- ing . I could mention a nobleman whose ... delighted with his ductions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . pro- Plantations have one advantage in them ...
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Page 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 71 - 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 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Page 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Page 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Page 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Page 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Page 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!