The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr. preface, and explanatory notes, Volumen81823 |
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... believe at what a high rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current payment ; and when he should come to understand it , it would be a great while before he could bring himself with a good ...
... believe at what a high rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current payment ; and when he should come to understand it , it would be a great while before he could bring himself with a good ...
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... believe they'd run ? Not one will move , Though proffer'd to be happy from above . HORNECK . It is a celebrated thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally ...
... believe they'd run ? Not one will move , Though proffer'd to be happy from above . HORNECK . It is a celebrated thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally ...
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... believe the very chin was , modestly speaking , as long as my whole face . We had both of us an opportunity of mending ourselves ; and all the contributions being now brought in , every man was at liberty to exchange his misfortunes for ...
... believe the very chin was , modestly speaking , as long as my whole face . We had both of us an opportunity of mending ourselves ; and all the contributions being now brought in , every man was at liberty to exchange his misfortunes for ...
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... believe you might have gone higher , and have added Balaam's ass . We are impatient to see more of your productions ; and expect what words will next fall from you with as much attention as those who were set to watch the speaking head ...
... believe you might have gone higher , and have added Balaam's ass . We are impatient to see more of your productions ; and expect what words will next fall from you with as much attention as those who were set to watch the speaking head ...
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... believe never writ to any body before . SIR , I AM descended from the ancient family of the Blanks , a name well known among all men of business . It is always read in those little white spaces of writing which want to be filled up ...
... believe never writ to any body before . SIR , I AM descended from the ancient family of the Blanks , a name well known among all men of business . It is always read in those little white spaces of writing which want to be filled up ...
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acquaintance admirer agreeable appear battle of Blenheim beautiful body CICERO consider conversation creature delight dervis desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy favour freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Herodotus Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar JUNE 23 Jupiter kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty quæ reader reason received roundhead says secret Shalum shew soul speak Spectator tell tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIII VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow words write young
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Página 116 - 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 310 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 125 - 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 310 - It must be so — 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 49 - 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 158 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...
Página 45 - ... appeared one after another, until the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Página 310 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Página 103 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Página 213 - How slowly Time creeps, till my Phebe return, While amidst the soft Zephyr's cool breezes I burn ; Methinks, if I knew whereabouts he would tread, I could breathe on his wings, and 'twould melt down the lead. Fly swifter, ye minutes ! bring hither my dear ! And rest so much longer for't, when she is here. " Ah ! Colin ! old Time is full of delay ; Nor will budge one foot faster, for all thou canst say...