The British Essayists;: The Looker-onJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 - English essays |
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Page 146 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 14 - Where there is an obscurity too deep for our Reason, 'tis good to sit down with a description, periphrasis, or adumbration; for by acquainting our Reason how unable it is to display the visible and obvious effects of Nature, it becomes more humble and submissive unto the subtleties of Faith; and thus I teach my haggard and unreclaimed Reason to stoop unto the lure of Faith.
Page 146 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 3 - em, and betwixt his grinders caught. Unlike in method, with conceal'd design, Did crafty Horace his low numbers join : And, with a sly insinuating grace, Laugh'd at his friend, and look'd him in the face: Would raise a blush, where secret vice he found ; And tickle, while he gently prob'd the wound.
Page 55 - Survey'i) our dusky, faint, imperfect day, And under what a cloud of night we lay; But when he...
Page 54 - O'er his soft wings the varying lustre gleam. Launch'd into air, on purple wings he soars; Gay nature's face with wanton glance explores; Proud of his various beauties, wings his way, And spoils the fairest flowers, himself more fair than they.
Page 60 - ... our organized bodies are no more ourselves or part of ourselves, than any other matter around us. And it is as easy to conceive how matter, which is no part of ourselves, may...
Page 14 - Since I was of understanding to know we knew nothing, my reason hath been more pliable to the will of faith : I am now content to understand a mystery without a rigid definition, in an easy and Platonic description.
Page 63 - Offices, and to teach my little flock, by my constant example as well as doctrine, 1 may hope that God will accept of this discharge of duty from me. The general good of the Church is the principle by which every Clergyman ought to direct himself; and to enter upon a remote Benefice, advancing in years and less active in life, a Cure on which perhaps I should not chuse to reside long, would shew more of the lucrative mind than the pastoral care, and therefore 1 think I ought to disclaim it. " I shall...
Page 52 - ... within this house of flesh. Those strange and mystical transmigrations that I have observed in silkworms, turned my philosophy into divinity. There is in these works of nature, which seem to puzzle reason, something divine, and hath more in it than the eye of a common spectator doth discover.