The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr. preface, and explanatory notes, Volumen81823 |
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... conceited . The praises or censures of himself fall only upon the creature of his imagination ; and , if any one finds fault with him , the author may reply with the philo- VOL . VIII . B sopher of old , thou dost but beat the case THE ...
... conceited . The praises or censures of himself fall only upon the creature of his imagination ; and , if any one finds fault with him , the author may reply with the philo- VOL . VIII . B sopher of old , thou dost but beat the case THE ...
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Spectator The. sopher of old , thou dost but beat the case of Anax- archus . ' When I speak in my own private senti- ments , I cannot but address myself to my readers in a more submissive manner , and with a just gratitude for the kind ...
Spectator The. sopher of old , thou dost but beat the case of Anax- archus . ' When I speak in my own private senti- ments , I cannot but address myself to my readers in a more submissive manner , and with a just gratitude for the kind ...
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... thou knowest the inhabitants of one of these places do not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civilized people , because they speak one ...
... thou knowest the inhabitants of one of these places do not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civilized people , because they speak one ...
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... thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to receive a hun- dred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is C 2 No. 557 . 15 SPECTATOR . account; but in less than a ...
... thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to receive a hun- dred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is C 2 No. 557 . 15 SPECTATOR . account; but in less than a ...
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... Thou wouldest fancy that the whole nation are phy- sicians , for the first question they always ask me is , how I do I have this question put to me above a hundred times a - day . Nay , they are not only thus inquisitive after my health ...
... Thou wouldest fancy that the whole nation are phy- sicians , for the first question they always ask me is , how I do I have this question put to me above a hundred times a - day . Nay , they are not only thus inquisitive after my health ...
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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...