The British Essayists
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ISBN13: 9780217067089
Paperback|9780217067089
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: upon himself as orator before the throne of grace, for a crowd, who hang upon his words, while he asks for them all that is necessary in a transitory life; from the assurance that a good behaviour, for a few moments in it, will purchase endless joy and happy immortality. But who can place himself in this view, who, though not pinched with want, is distracted with care from the fear of it ? No; a man, in the least degree below the spirit of a saint or a martyr, will loll, huddle over his duty, look confused, or assume a resolution in his behaviour which will be quite as ungraceful, except he is supported above the necessities of life. ' Power and commandment to his minister to declare and pronounce to his people, ' is mentioned with a very unregarded air, when the speaker is known in his own private condition to be almost an object of their pity and charity. This last circumstance, with many others here loosely suggested, are the occasion that one knows not how to recommend, to such as have not already a fixed sense of devotion, the pleasure of passing the earliest hours of the day in a public congregation. But were this morning solemnity as much in vogue, even as it is now at more advanced hours of the day, it would necessarily have so good an effect upon us, as to make us more disengaged and cheerful in conversation, and less artful and insincere in business. The world would be quite another place, than it is now, the rest of the day; and every face would have an alacrity in it, which can be borrowed from no other reflections, but those which give us the assured protection of Omnipotence. VOL. XIV. No. 66. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1713. Stepe tribus kctis videos ccenare quaternos; E quilms unus avet quavis aspergere cunctos, Prceter eum quiprcebet aquam; post, hunc quo...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217067089 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217067085 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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