The Spectator, Volumen3Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... learning they will put you to prove that snow is white , and when you are upon that topic can say that there is really no such thing as colour in nature ; in a word , they can turn what little knowledge they have into a ready capacity ...
... learning they will put you to prove that snow is white , and when you are upon that topic can say that there is really no such thing as colour in nature ; in a word , they can turn what little knowledge they have into a ready capacity ...
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... learning than of money . The gentleman I am speaking of takes advantage of the narrowness of my circumstances in such a manner , that he has read all that I can pretend to , and runs me down with such a posi- tive air , and with such ...
... learning than of money . The gentleman I am speaking of takes advantage of the narrowness of my circumstances in such a manner , that he has read all that I can pretend to , and runs me down with such a posi- tive air , and with such ...
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... learning . I beg of you to prevent , in these youngsters , this compen- dious way to wisdom , which costs other people so much time and pains ; and you will oblige ( MR . SPECTATOR , Your humble servant . " Coffee - house near the ...
... learning . I beg of you to prevent , in these youngsters , this compen- dious way to wisdom , which costs other people so much time and pains ; and you will oblige ( MR . SPECTATOR , Your humble servant . " Coffee - house near the ...
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... learning : so that at pre- sent a man may venture to cock up his hat , and wear a fashionable wig , without being taken for a rake or a fool . The medium between a fop and a sloven is what a man of sense would endeavour to keep ; yet I ...
... learning : so that at pre- sent a man may venture to cock up his hat , and wear a fashionable wig , without being taken for a rake or a fool . The medium between a fop and a sloven is what a man of sense would endeavour to keep ; yet I ...
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... learning , there should be public warning of his residence in town , that we may remove our wives and daughters . It happens some times that such a fine man has read all the miscellany poems , a few of our comedies , and has the ...
... learning , there should be public warning of his residence in town , that we may remove our wives and daughters . It happens some times that such a fine man has read all the miscellany poems , a few of our comedies , and has the ...
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Página 139 - ... that stood by them, to save themselves. Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and, in the midst of a speculation, stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles, that glittered in their eyes, and danced before them ; but often, when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed and down they sunk.
Página 234 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering: If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep...
Página 140 - are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Lore, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. ' I here fetched a deep sigh. « Alas," said I, " man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death!" The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. "Look no more...
Página 141 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Página 138 - I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Página 156 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 137 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 138 - ... of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned to me, and by the waving of his hand directed me to approach the place where he sat. I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and, as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability, that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
Página 146 - This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Página 174 - ... the transcript of words. As the Supreme Being has expressed, and as it were printed his ideas in the creation, men express their ideas in books, which by this great invention of these latter ages, may last as long as the sun and moon, and perish only in the general wreck of nature. Thus Cowley in his poem on the resurrection, mentioning the destruction of the universe, has those admirable lines. Now all the wide extended sky, And all th