 | 1803 - 412 стор.
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, w'Mch had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...season. I may also add, that there are no parts in historv which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, because... | |
 | 1803 - 372 стор.
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. 1 may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please- the reader in so sensible... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 стор.
...upwards of ninety. His *. " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour *f at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts "in history, which affect .and... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 стор.
...soul:—" If it be a dream, let me enjoy it; since it makes me both the happier and the better man." (5) " There is nothing in history, which is so improving...to the reader as those accounts which we meet with ot the deaths ol" eminent persons, and of their behaviour at that dreadful season." C . EXAMPLES OF... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 стор.
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behavior in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which, N 2 affect... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 стор.
...Spectator, No. 186'. t " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of einiuenl persons, and 'of their behaviour at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 стор.
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...also add, that there are no parts in history which alfect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, because there is... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 стор.
...-•- this little compilation. The Editor quotes, in his Preface, a remark from The Spectator, that ' there is nothing in history * which is so improving...deaths of eminent persons, and of their ' behaviour at that dreadful season.1 The narratives com' prised in the present selection, are principally adapted... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 стор.
...them, that they often think it safer to endure, than to defend themselves against oppression. Nothing is so improving to the reader, as those accounts which...behaviour in that dreadful season. I may also add, that no parts in history affect and please the reader in a more sensible manner. There is a particular fault... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 398 стор.
...a writer,* whose words I shall beg leave to transcribe, and whose judgment cannot be questioned : " There is nothing in history which is so improving...persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season," Spect. No. 289. Here is a large field, in which the reader may not barely glean a few ears, but gather... | |
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The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader, as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. 
