The Spectator, Volumen10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... truth we are ' speaking of ? The same doctrine is shadowed out in many other heathen authors , though at the same time , like several other revealed truths , dashed and adulterated with a mixture of fables and human inventions . But to ...
... truth we are ' speaking of ? The same doctrine is shadowed out in many other heathen authors , though at the same time , like several other revealed truths , dashed and adulterated with a mixture of fables and human inventions . But to ...
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... truth and knowledge . I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise , entitled , William Ramsay's Vindication of Astrology . This profound author , among many mystical pas- sages , has the following one : " The absence of the sun is ...
... truth and knowledge . I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise , entitled , William Ramsay's Vindication of Astrology . This profound author , among many mystical pas- sages , has the following one : " The absence of the sun is ...
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... truth those strange workings of fancy in sleep are no inconsidera- ble instances so that not only the advantage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to his own ease or disquiet , may induce him to accept of my ...
... truth those strange workings of fancy in sleep are no inconsidera- ble instances so that not only the advantage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to his own ease or disquiet , may induce him to accept of my ...
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... truth , I do not think we ought to lay aside any proofs in this matter , which the light of reason has suggested to us , especially when it is such an one as has been urged by men famous for their penetration and force of understanding ...
... truth , I do not think we ought to lay aside any proofs in this matter , which the light of reason has suggested to us , especially when it is such an one as has been urged by men famous for their penetration and force of understanding ...
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... truth as the ears are from the eyes . ' . By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen . I shall , un- der this head , mention two or three remarkable rules ...
... truth as the ears are from the eyes . ' . By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen . I shall , un- der this head , mention two or three remarkable rules ...
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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.