The Spectator. ...H. Hughs, 1789 |
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... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no wonder we fee fuch multitudes of afpiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , not- withstanding the ...
... hope to make the figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no wonder we fee fuch multitudes of afpiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , not- withstanding the ...
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... hope it will not be imputed to any want of forefight , but to the long • difufe of fpeech . I doubt not by this inven- ' tion to have all my former customers over again ; for , if I have promised any of them ' lovers or husbands ...
... hope it will not be imputed to any want of forefight , but to the long • difufe of fpeech . I doubt not by this inven- ' tion to have all my former customers over again ; for , if I have promised any of them ' lovers or husbands ...
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... hope you will allow me to reprefent fome part of a Military LIFE not altogether unneceffary to the forming a gen- tleman . I need not tell you that in France , whofe fashions we have been formerly fo • fond of , almost every one derives ...
... hope you will allow me to reprefent fome part of a Military LIFE not altogether unneceffary to the forming a gen- tleman . I need not tell you that in France , whofe fashions we have been formerly fo • fond of , almost every one derives ...
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... hope this fhort effay will convince my readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a mafter of the political fcratch as any the ...
... hope this fhort effay will convince my readers it is not for want of abilities that I avoid state tracts , and that , if I would apply my mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a mafter of the political fcratch as any the ...
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... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated : and when pain • itself would be of fo fhort a duration , that it would but juft ferve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
... hope for in life , when death was thus in a manner defeated : and when pain • itself would be of fo fhort a duration , that it would but juft ferve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to ...
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Page 137 - 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 56 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 371 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 371 - 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 198 - 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 55 - His substance is within the substance of every being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Page 57 - ... regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion ; for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...
Page 25 - Commodious manner, he marched off with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.
Page 54 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
Page 104 - I am got into quotations, give me leave to add the saying of an old philosopher, who, after having invited some of his friends to dine with him, was ruffled by his wife that came into the room in a passion, and threw down the table that stood before them; ' every one,' says he, ' has his calamity, and he is a happy man that has no greater than this.