The Spectator, Volumen10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... rise of this tenth and last volume . † I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were concerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform the reader , that ...
... rise of this tenth and last volume . † I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were concerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform the reader , that ...
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... rise infinitely beyond whatever we are able to conceive of it . We might here entertain ourselves with many other speculations on this subject , from those several hints which we find of it in the Holy Scriptures ; as , whether there ...
... rise infinitely beyond whatever we are able to conceive of it . We might here entertain ourselves with many other speculations on this subject , from those several hints which we find of it in the Holy Scriptures ; as , whether there ...
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... , till at length I came to a resolution of rising upon them , and hope , in a little time , to drive them quite out of the British hemisphere . VOL . X. .C . No. 583 . FRIDAY , August 20 , 1714 . No. 582 . 25 THE SPECTATOR.
... , till at length I came to a resolution of rising upon them , and hope , in a little time , to drive them quite out of the British hemisphere . VOL . X. .C . No. 583 . FRIDAY , August 20 , 1714 . No. 582 . 25 THE SPECTATOR.
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... rise with as good a stomach to his breakfast as if he had fasted all night long or suppose he should see his dearest friends remain all night in great dis- tresses , which he could instantly have disengaged them . from , could he have ...
... rise with as good a stomach to his breakfast as if he had fasted all night long or suppose he should see his dearest friends remain all night in great dis- tresses , which he could instantly have disengaged them . from , could he have ...
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... rise either from an ill - will to mankind , a pri inclination to make ourselves esteemed , an ostenta of wit , a vanity of being thought in the secrets of world , or from a desire of gratifying any of these positions of mind in those ...
... rise either from an ill - will to mankind , a pri inclination to make ourselves esteemed , an ostenta of wit , a vanity of being thought in the secrets of world , or from a desire of gratifying any of these positions of mind in those ...
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Página 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Página 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Página 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Página 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Página 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Página 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Página 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.