The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr. preface, and explanatory notes, Volumen81823 |
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... matter I am going to lay before you . We ( and perhaps other nations as well as we ) have a national false humility as well as a national vain glory ; and , though we boast ourselves to excel all the world in things wherein we are ...
... matter I am going to lay before you . We ( and perhaps other nations as well as we ) have a national false humility as well as a national vain glory ; and , though we boast ourselves to excel all the world in things wherein we are ...
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... matter to work upon , without descending to those which are peculiar to either . If in a multitude of counsellors there is safety , we ought to think ourselves the securest nation in the world . Most of our garrets are inhabited by ...
... matter to work upon , without descending to those which are peculiar to either . If in a multitude of counsellors there is safety , we ought to think ourselves the securest nation in the world . Most of our garrets are inhabited by ...
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... matters . We do not question but you are as great an orator as Sir Hudibras , of whom the poet sweetly sings , 66 He could not ope His mouth , but out there flew a trope . " If you will send us down the half dozen well - turned periods ...
... matters . We do not question but you are as great an orator as Sir Hudibras , of whom the poet sweetly sings , 66 He could not ope His mouth , but out there flew a trope . " If you will send us down the half dozen well - turned periods ...
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... matter . In order to recover myself from this mortifying thought , I considered that it took its rise from those narrow conceptions which we are apt to entertain of the divine nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different ...
... matter . In order to recover myself from this mortifying thought , I considered that it took its rise from those narrow conceptions which we are apt to entertain of the divine nature . We ourselves cannot attend to many different ...
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... matter ; roast and boiled would serve our turn . He smiled at my simplicity , and told me that it was his design to give us a tune upon it . As I was surprised at such a promise , he sent for an old frying - pan , and grating it upon ...
... matter ; roast and boiled would serve our turn . He smiled at my simplicity , and told me that it was his design to give us a tune upon it . As I was surprised at such a promise , he sent for an old frying - pan , and grating it upon ...
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acquaintance admirer agreeable appear battle of Blenheim beautiful body CICERO consider conversation creature delight dervis desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy favour freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Herodotus Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar JUNE 23 Jupiter kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty quæ reader reason received roundhead says secret Shalum shew soul speak Spectator tell tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIII VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow words write young
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Página 116 - 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 310 - 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 125 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 310 - 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...
Página 49 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 158 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...
Página 45 - ... appeared one after another, until the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Página 310 - ... 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 103 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Página 213 - How slowly Time creeps, till my Phebe return, While amidst the soft Zephyr's cool breezes I burn ; Methinks, if I knew whereabouts he would tread, I could breathe on his wings, and 'twould melt down the lead. Fly swifter, ye minutes ! bring hither my dear ! And rest so much longer for't, when she is here. " Ah ! Colin ! old Time is full of delay ; Nor will budge one foot faster, for all thou canst say...