The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... piece he sells to the piece itself ; so that the most ignorant servant or child will be as good a buyer at his shop as the most skilful in the trade . For all which , you have all his hopes and fortune for your security . To encourage ...
... piece he sells to the piece itself ; so that the most ignorant servant or child will be as good a buyer at his shop as the most skilful in the trade . For all which , you have all his hopes and fortune for your security . To encourage ...
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... pieces of good fortune ; but in the temper of mind he was then , he termed them mercies , favours of Providence , and blessings upon an honest industry . Now , ' says he , ' you must know , my good friend , I am so used to consider ...
... pieces of good fortune ; but in the temper of mind he was then , he termed them mercies , favours of Providence , and blessings upon an honest industry . Now , ' says he , ' you must know , my good friend , I am so used to consider ...
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... pieces which I have taught the reader how to distinguish for his . When the play above - mentioned was last acted , there were so many applauded strokes in it which I had from the same hand , that I thought very meanly of myself that I ...
... pieces which I have taught the reader how to distinguish for his . When the play above - mentioned was last acted , there were so many applauded strokes in it which I had from the same hand , that I thought very meanly of myself that I ...
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... faces , history , battles , landscapes , sea- pieces , fruit , flowers , or drolls , & c . Nay , no man ever was excellent in all the branches ( though many in number ) of these several arts , for a 60 555 . SPECTATOR .
... faces , history , battles , landscapes , sea- pieces , fruit , flowers , or drolls , & c . Nay , no man ever was excellent in all the branches ( though many in number ) of these several arts , for a 60 555 . SPECTATOR .
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... pieces in this work to Mr. Ince , of Gray's Inn * . R. STEELE . This was the conclusion of the seventh volume of the Spectator , as originally published . The intermediate time was filled up by our authors with the Guardian . See ...
... pieces in this work to Mr. Ince , of Gray's Inn * . R. STEELE . This was the conclusion of the seventh volume of the Spectator , as originally published . The intermediate time was filled up by our authors with the Guardian . See ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 367 - 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 215 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Página 106 - 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 182 - 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 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Página 75 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, •who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garment hovered in the wind.
Página 173 - 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 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Página 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.