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He is a gentleman that is very sin - agreeable : as few of his thoughts are drawn
from gular in his behaviour , but his singularities proceed business , they are
most of them fit for conversation from his good sense , and are contradictions to
the ...
He is a gentleman that is very sin - agreeable : as few of his thoughts are drawn
from gular in his behaviour , but his singularities proceed business , they are
most of them fit for conversation from his good sense , and are contradictions to
the ...
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Common sense however requires , that ferent sexes . Armida ( as we are told in
the arguthere should be nothing in the scenes and machines ment ) was an
Amazonian enchantress , and poor which may appear childish and absurd .
Common sense however requires , that ferent sexes . Armida ( as we are told in
the arguthere should be nothing in the scenes and machines ment ) was an
Amazonian enchantress , and poor which may appear childish and absurd .
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This may be attributed to the folly hardly that person to be found , who is not more
conof admitting wit and learning as merit in themselves , cerned for the reputation
of wit and sense , than of without considering the application of them .
This may be attributed to the folly hardly that person to be found , who is not more
conof admitting wit and learning as merit in themselves , cerned for the reputation
of wit and sense , than of without considering the application of them .
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... which I did in such a trepidation and hurry sense , and our religion . Is there
any thing so just of obedience , that I let it drop by the way ; at which as that mode
and gallantry should be built upon ex - she immediately startled , and said it fell ...
... which I did in such a trepidation and hurry sense , and our religion . Is there
any thing so just of obedience , that I let it drop by the way ; at which as that mode
and gallantry should be built upon ex - she immediately startled , and said it fell ...
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187 . particular foundation ( as St . John ' s men would have But now our nobles
too are sops and vain , the world believe , and have therefore erected a
seNeglect the sense , but love the painted scene . - CRECI . parate society within
...
187 . particular foundation ( as St . John ' s men would have But now our nobles
too are sops and vain , the world believe , and have therefore erected a
seNeglect the sense , but love the painted scene . - CRECI . parate society within
...
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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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