The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. 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 |
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... human race . The several great bodies which compose the solar system are kept from joining together at the com- mon center of gravity by the rectilinear motions the Author of nature has impressed on each of them ; which , concurring ...
... human race . The several great bodies which compose the solar system are kept from joining together at the com- mon center of gravity by the rectilinear motions the Author of nature has impressed on each of them ; which , concurring ...
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... human soul ; or lastly , in the ends and aptness which are discoverable in all parts of the visible and intellectual world ; we shall not doubt but the precept , which is the characteristic of our religion , came from the Author of ...
... human soul ; or lastly , in the ends and aptness which are discoverable in all parts of the visible and intellectual world ; we shall not doubt but the precept , which is the characteristic of our religion , came from the Author of ...
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... human feet is try'd , Its lofty brow looks down with noble pride On bounteous Nile , thro ' seven wide channels spread ; And sees old Proteus in his oozy bed . Along its sides no hoary frosts presume To blast the myrtle shrubs , or nip ...
... human feet is try'd , Its lofty brow looks down with noble pride On bounteous Nile , thro ' seven wide channels spread ; And sees old Proteus in his oozy bed . Along its sides no hoary frosts presume To blast the myrtle shrubs , or nip ...
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... human wit excell'd ; And grown uxorious , did the work design To speak the artist , and the art divine . Proud columns tow'ring high , support the frame , That hewn from hyacinthian quarries came . The beams are emeralds , and yet ...
... human wit excell'd ; And grown uxorious , did the work design To speak the artist , and the art divine . Proud columns tow'ring high , support the frame , That hewn from hyacinthian quarries came . The beams are emeralds , and yet ...
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... human life , that the ingenious sir William Temple acknowledges , in some part of his writings , all those advantages which distinguish polite nations from barbarians to be derived from them . But as these sciences cultivate the ...
... human life , that the ingenious sir William Temple acknowledges , in some part of his writings , all those advantages which distinguish polite nations from barbarians to be derived from them . But as these sciences cultivate the ...
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Página 231 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 232 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Página 232 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Página 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 182 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Página 232 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Página 49 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Página 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.