The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Discourses , the Character of a Good - natured , Honeft and Accomplished Gentleman . But fuch Representations give my Reader an Idea of a Perfon blameless only , or only lauda- ble for fuch Perfections as extend no farther than to his ...
... Discourses , the Character of a Good - natured , Honeft and Accomplished Gentleman . But fuch Representations give my Reader an Idea of a Perfon blameless only , or only lauda- ble for fuch Perfections as extend no farther than to his ...
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... Discourse in my Mind before I fet Pen to Paper . In the other Kind of Writing , it is fufficient that I have se- veral Thoughts on a Subject , without troubling my self to range them in fuch order , thatthey may feem to grow out of one ...
... Discourse in my Mind before I fet Pen to Paper . In the other Kind of Writing , it is fufficient that I have se- veral Thoughts on a Subject , without troubling my self to range them in fuch order , thatthey may feem to grow out of one ...
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... Discourse fhews it felf in its greatest Beauty , as the feveral Figures in a Piece of Painting receive new Grace from their Dif- pofition in the Picture . The Advantages of a Reader from a methodical Difcourfe , are correfpondent with ...
... Discourse fhews it felf in its greatest Beauty , as the feveral Figures in a Piece of Painting receive new Grace from their Dif- pofition in the Picture . The Advantages of a Reader from a methodical Difcourfe , are correfpondent with ...
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... Discourse is of general Ufe , and every married Man's Money . An honeft Tradesman , who dates his Letter from Cheap- fide , fends me Thanks in the Name of a Club , who , he tells me , meet as often as their Wives will give them leave ...
... Discourse is of general Ufe , and every married Man's Money . An honeft Tradesman , who dates his Letter from Cheap- fide , fends me Thanks in the Name of a Club , who , he tells me , meet as often as their Wives will give them leave ...
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... discourse with a little Fellow , who refused twelve Shillings , and infifted upon fifteen for his Body . The Fellow , who kill'd the Officer of New- gate , very forwardly , and like a Man who was willing to deal , told him , Look you ...
... discourse with a little Fellow , who refused twelve Shillings , and infifted upon fifteen for his Body . The Fellow , who kill'd the Officer of New- gate , very forwardly , and like a Man who was willing to deal , told him , Look you ...
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Página 159 - He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of. It would have gone to your heart to have heard the moans the dumb creature made on the day of my master's death. He has never joyed himself since; no more has any of us.
Página 75 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another...
Página 13 - I am so far from being fond of any particular 'one, by reason of its rarity, that if I meet with any one in a field which pleases me, I give it a place in my garden.
Página 55 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Página 14 - ... with its several little plantations, lying so conveniently under the eye of the beholder, on the other side of it there appears a seeming mount, made up of trees rising one higher than another, in proportion as they approach the centre.
Página 164 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Página 164 - ... for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it. The author* of the Plurality of worlds...
Página 159 - Andrew opening the book, found it to be a collection of Acts of Parliament. There was in particular the Act of Uniformity, with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own hand. Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three points, which he had disputed with Sir Roger the last time he appeared at the Club. Sir Andrew, who would have been merry at such an incident on another occasion, at the sight of...
Página 13 - There is the same irregularity in my plantations, which run into as great a wilderness as their natures will permit. I take in none that do not naturally rejoice in the soil, and am pleased when I am walking in a labyrinth of my own raising, not to know whether the next tree I shall meet with is an apple or an oak, an elm or a pear-tree.
Página 158 - Master's Service, he has left us Pensions and Legacies, which we may live very comfortably upon, the remaining Part of our Days. He has bequeathed a great Deal more in Charity, which is not yet come to my Knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the Parish...