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... whole . As for the distinct papers , they were seldom or never shewn to each other by their re- spective authors , who fully answered the promise they had made , and far out - went the expectation they had raised , of pursuing their ...
... whole . As for the distinct papers , they were seldom or never shewn to each other by their re- spective authors , who fully answered the promise they had made , and far out - went the expectation they had raised , of pursuing their ...
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... whole scene va- nished in the room of the frightful spectres , there now entered a second dance of apparitions very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable phantoms . The first pair was Liberty , with Monarchy at her ...
... whole scene va- nished in the room of the frightful spectres , there now entered a second dance of apparitions very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable phantoms . The first pair was Liberty , with Monarchy at her ...
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... whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid por- tended some misfortune to themselves or to their children . At her ...
... whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid por- tended some misfortune to themselves or to their children . At her ...
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... whole table , began to consider myself , with some confusion , as a person that had brought a disaster upon the family . The lady how- ever recovering herself , after a little space , said to her husband , with a sigh , My dear ...
... whole table , began to consider myself , with some confusion , as a person that had brought a disaster upon the family . The lady how- ever recovering herself , after a little space , said to her husband , with a sigh , My dear ...
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... whole thread of my existence ; not only that part of it which I have already passed through , but that which runs forward into all the depths of eternity . When I lay me down to sleep , I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake , I ...
... whole thread of my existence ; not only that part of it which I have already passed through , but that which runs forward into all the depths of eternity . When I lay me down to sleep , I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake , I ...
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Page 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
Page 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 270 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 338 - I see multitudes of people passing over it", said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it ". As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Page 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Page 256 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Page 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me : What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
Page 339 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants; and among many other feathered...