The British Essayists, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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... turns their argu- ments into satire , which , instead of shewing an error in the understanding , tends only to expose the morals of those they write against . I shall not act after this manner with respect to the free- thinkers . Virtue ...
... turns their argu- ments into satire , which , instead of shewing an error in the understanding , tends only to expose the morals of those they write against . I shall not act after this manner with respect to the free- thinkers . Virtue ...
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... turns constrained or ruffled by the designs of malice in the other . I was at a loss to know the reason of their join- ing me so briskly when he , whose appearance displeased me most , thus addressed his companion : ' Pray , brother ...
... turns constrained or ruffled by the designs of malice in the other . I was at a loss to know the reason of their join- ing me so briskly when he , whose appearance displeased me most , thus addressed his companion : ' Pray , brother ...
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... turn into as- semblies of geese , their lips hardened to bills by external using , they gabbled for diversion , they hissed in scandal , and their ruffles falling back on their arms , a succession of little feathers appeared , which ...
... turn into as- semblies of geese , their lips hardened to bills by external using , they gabbled for diversion , they hissed in scandal , and their ruffles falling back on their arms , a succession of little feathers appeared , which ...
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... turn bears , wolves , or foxes , & c . Neither neglect your more remote acquaintance , where you see any worthy and susceptible of admonition . Expose the beasts whose qualities you see them putting on , where you have no mind to engage ...
... turn bears , wolves , or foxes , & c . Neither neglect your more remote acquaintance , where you see any worthy and susceptible of admonition . Expose the beasts whose qualities you see them putting on , where you have no mind to engage ...
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... turn of thought and expression would insensibly grow natural to them , would they but give themselves time to receive the impression . Suppose we fix one of these readers in an easy chair , and observe him passing through a book with a ...
... turn of thought and expression would insensibly grow natural to them , would they but give themselves time to receive the impression . Suppose we fix one of these readers in an easy chair , and observe him passing through a book with a ...
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Page 161 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield.
Page 24 - 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 56 - So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.
Page 162 - He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, ha!" and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 172 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire...
Page 170 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 116 - IT is no small pleasure to me, who am zealous in the interests of learning, to think I may have the honour of leading the town into a very new and uncommon road of criticism. As that kind of literature is at present carried on, it consists only in a knowledge of mechanic rules which contribute to the structure of different sorts of poetry; as the receipts of good housewives do to the making puddings of flour, oranges, plums, or any other ingredients.
Page 171 - When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did he see it and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 170 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 310 - The friend, in the meanwhile, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.