 It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse...  The Spectator - Page 1101729Full view - About this book
 | 1802 - 502 pages
...and in their ' cleanlieft habits, to converfe to' gether — to hear their duty ex' plained and to join together in ' adoration of the Supreme Being....the ruft of ' the whole week — not only, as ' it refrefhes in their minds notions ' of religion, but puts them upon ' appearing in the belt manner,... | |
 | Edward King - Bible - 1800 - 606 pages
...hear * Addijln, in his Speñator, No. 112, Vol, II. p. 108. " their duties explained to them, and to join " together in adoration of the Supreme Being....Sunday clears away the ruft of the whole '* week." — And he then gives, in his ufual cheerful manner, a little detail even of trifling crrcumftances,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | 1803 - 488 pages
...facer, and in their ' cleanlieft habits, to converfeto' gether — to hear their duty ex' plained and to join together in ' adoration of the Supreme Being....the ruft of ' the whole week — not only, as ' it rcfrcfhes in their minds notions ' of religion, but puts them upon ' appearing in the beft manner,... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...adoration of the supreme being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...adoration of the supreme being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon different subjects, hear their duties explained to them,' and...adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...meet to? gether with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained...join together in adoration of .the Supreme Being. It cannot be doubted, but that there is as great a desire of glory in a ring of wrestlers or cudgel-pla>ers,... | |
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