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... man presents an awful lesson to those who , blinded by self - importance , can
brook nothing that runs counter to their own notions and desires ; and who , to
satiate hatred and revenge , are tempted to hazard wealth , fame , and happiness
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... man presents an awful lesson to those who , blinded by self - importance , can
brook nothing that runs counter to their own notions and desires ; and who , to
satiate hatred and revenge , are tempted to hazard wealth , fame , and happiness
.
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Having taken his degree of Master of Arts , and obtained Priests ' Orders . he for
some time officiated as curate at Melton ; until an uncontrolable desire for
celebrity induced him to visit the metropolis . In London he published some
Translations ...
Having taken his degree of Master of Arts , and obtained Priests ' Orders . he for
some time officiated as curate at Melton ; until an uncontrolable desire for
celebrity induced him to visit the metropolis . In London he published some
Translations ...
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... who will contentious , and statesmen that are out of business ; | frequently put
me in mind of my promise , desire me ... and desires to form a right judgment of
give over , with many other little pleasantries of the those who are the actors on it
...
... who will contentious , and statesmen that are out of business ; | frequently put
me in mind of my promise , desire me ... and desires to form a right judgment of
give over , with many other little pleasantries of the those who are the actors on it
...
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I desire as a shepherdess . But let me bez of them to read you would , for your
own sake , forbear such intima - the Arcadia , or some other good romance ,
before mations for the future ; and must say it is a great they appear in any such ...
I desire as a shepherdess . But let me bez of them to read you would , for your
own sake , forbear such intima - the Arcadia , or some other good romance ,
before mations for the future ; and must say it is a great they appear in any such ...
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This is to let you understand , that the play . fore desire their sons may be of it :
whereas , in so house is a representation of the world in nothing so great an affair
of life , they should consider the ge - much as in this particular , that no one rises
...
This is to let you understand , that the play . fore desire their sons may be of it :
whereas , in so house is a representation of the world in nothing so great an affair
of life , they should consider the ge - much as in this particular , that no one rises
...
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Página 173 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Página 195 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Página 173 - ... on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Página 173 - 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, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Página xxxix - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences.
Página 195 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 173 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean...
Página 121 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Página 25 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another : the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind.
Página 115 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. |
| Autor | Spectator The |
| Publicado | 1857 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 7 Abr. 2006 |
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