Melancholy (1780) [ Concepts ]
… The Hypochondriack, no. XXXIX. ‘In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.’ Psalms. The Hypochondriack is himself at this moment in a state of very dismal … company as a periodical essayist for three years, he considers them as his friends, and trusts that they will treat him with a kindly indulgence. He is encouraged by the compliments which an unknown reader at the London Coffee-house has been … Psalms, which I have prefixed as a motto to this paper, presented itself to my mind. ‘In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.’ Language cannot better express uneasy perturbation of spirits than the Psalmist …
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