The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 - English essays |
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Page 56 - Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him." I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I,
Page 51 - to her, and she laughed at the places where she thought I was touched; I threw away your moral, and taking up her girdle cried out, Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the ' sun *' goes round f. " She smiled, Sir, and said you were a pedant; so
Page 370 - being placed at so great a distance from him. The objects do not appear little to him, because they are remote. He considers that those pleasures and pains which lie hid in eternity, approach nearer to him every moment, and will be present with him in their full weight and measure, as much as those pains
Page 146 - Pursuant to those passages in holy scripture, I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose; What I spent I lost ; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains
Page 11 - Tis on this occasion that he afterwards adds the reflection which I have chosen for my motto: Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool, And wit in rags is turn'd to ridicule. DRYDEN. It must be confessed that few things make a man appear more despicable, or more prejudice his
Page 91 - after his death would ever inquire after it. The dying man had still so much the frailty of an author in him, as to be cut to the heart with these consolations ; and, without answering the good man, asked his friends about him, with a peevishness that is natural to a sick person, where they
Page 45 - and ferocity which some men, though liberally educated, carry about them in all their behaviour. To be bred like a gentleman, and punished like a malefactor, must, as we see it does, produce that illiberal sauciness which we see sometimes in men of letters. The Spartan boy who suffered the fox which he had
Page 186 - not found his post tenable, and is therefore retired into deism, and a disbelief of revealed religion only. But the truth of it is, the greatest number of this set of men are those who, for want of a virtuous education, or examining the grounds of religion, know so very little of
Page 69 - our great Judge, and pass our whole life- in offending and asking pardon. On the contrary, the beings underneath us are not capable of sinning, nor those above us of repenting. The one is out of the possibilities of duty, and the other fixed in an eternal course of sin, or an eternal course of virtue.
Page 181 - shall extend the word interest to a larger meaning than what is generally given it, as it relates to our spiritual safety and welfare, as well as to our temporal. A man is glad to gain numbers on his side, as they serve to strengthen him in his private opinions. Every proselyte VOL.