The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34 |
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Page 36
... striking advantages in the pos- session of wealth , that the inheritance of a great estate devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the eye of speculation as a lot of singular felicity . There are some countries ...
... striking advantages in the pos- session of wealth , that the inheritance of a great estate devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the eye of speculation as a lot of singular felicity . There are some countries ...
Page 42
... strike me in the gale ; Like Egypt's blight his breath is all alive : His very dew is poison , honey - sweet , Teeming with putrefaction ; in his fog The locust and the caterpillar swarm , And vegetable nature falls before them : Open ...
... strike me in the gale ; Like Egypt's blight his breath is all alive : His very dew is poison , honey - sweet , Teeming with putrefaction ; in his fog The locust and the caterpillar swarm , And vegetable nature falls before them : Open ...
Page 50
... striking contrast to the or- namented grounds about it - I am surprised , ' added he , you can see any beauty in those paltry huts . " -Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly inquired of Attalus , when ...
... striking contrast to the or- namented grounds about it - I am surprised , ' added he , you can see any beauty in those paltry huts . " -Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly inquired of Attalus , when ...
Page 57
... strike without pre- facing the blow by saying to themselves - This man deserves to die . Foolish wretches , what computa- tion must they make of life , who devote so great a portion of it to miseries and reproaches of their own creating ...
... strike without pre- facing the blow by saying to themselves - This man deserves to die . Foolish wretches , what computa- tion must they make of life , who devote so great a portion of it to miseries and reproaches of their own creating ...
Page 68
... striking at the foundation of the most splendid fabric Superstition ever reared on earth ! These Gentiles are not a rude and barbarous race , but men of illuminated minds , acute philoso- phers , eloquent orators , powerful reasoners ...
... striking at the foundation of the most splendid fabric Superstition ever reared on earth ! These Gentiles are not a rude and barbarous race , but men of illuminated minds , acute philoso- phers , eloquent orators , powerful reasoners ...
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Page 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Page 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...