The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The GuardianE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... reader with it as I received it , because I think it gives a lively idea of the affliction which a fond parent suffers on such an occasion . SIR , -shire , July , 1713 . THE other day I went into the house of one of my tenants , whose ...
... reader with it as I received it , because I think it gives a lively idea of the affliction which a fond parent suffers on such an occasion . SIR , -shire , July , 1713 . THE other day I went into the house of one of my tenants , whose ...
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... reader will pardon me for taking his eye from our present subject of the spring , by this landskip , since it is at this time of the year only that prospects excel in beauty . But if the eye is delighted , the ear hath likewise its pro ...
... reader will pardon me for taking his eye from our present subject of the spring , by this landskip , since it is at this time of the year only that prospects excel in beauty . But if the eye is delighted , the ear hath likewise its pro ...
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... reader determine the doubt in his own mind . There is yet a third sort of revenge , if it may be called a third , which is compounded of the other two : I mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men ...
... reader determine the doubt in his own mind . There is yet a third sort of revenge , if it may be called a third , which is compounded of the other two : I mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men ...
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... reader as much compassion as hor- ror . A Monsieur Monsieur Sackville . ' I THAT am in France hear how much you attribute to yourself in this time , that I have given the world leave to ring * your praises * * * * * * * * * * * * If you ...
... reader as much compassion as hor- ror . A Monsieur Monsieur Sackville . ' I THAT am in France hear how much you attribute to yourself in this time , that I have given the world leave to ring * your praises * * * * * * * * * * * * If you ...
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... reader , but the following re- flection will make it plain . That philosopher invented the forty - seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid , which is the foundation of trigo- nometry and consequently of navigation , upon which ...
... reader , but the following re- flection will make it plain . That philosopher invented the forty - seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid , which is the foundation of trigo- nometry and consequently of navigation , upon which ...
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Página 223 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 222 - 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 223 - 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 190 - 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.
Página 59 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Página 27 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Página 84 - 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 57 - 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 223 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, But thou excellest them all.
Página 84 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India east or west, or middle shore In Pontus, or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reigned, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell...