The Spectator, Volumen8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... Honour be it fpoken , there is not a Sage of them all could have better , acted up to their Pre- cepts in one of the most important Points of Life : I mean in that Generous Dif - regard of Popular Opinion , which you fhowed fome Years ...
... Honour be it fpoken , there is not a Sage of them all could have better , acted up to their Pre- cepts in one of the most important Points of Life : I mean in that Generous Dif - regard of Popular Opinion , which you fhowed fome Years ...
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... Honour , Religion and Virtue , and fo long as he acts with an Eye to thefe Principles , whatever Party he is of , he can- not fail of being a good Englishman , and a Lover of his Country . AS AS for the Perfons concerned in this Work ...
... Honour , Religion and Virtue , and fo long as he acts with an Eye to thefe Principles , whatever Party he is of , he can- not fail of being a good Englishman , and a Lover of his Country . AS AS for the Perfons concerned in this Work ...
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... Honour than the following Paffage related by Plu tarch . As an Advocate was pleading the Caufe of his Client before one of the Prætors , he could only pro- duce a fingle Witnefs in a Point where the Law re- quired the Teftimony of two ...
... Honour than the following Paffage related by Plu tarch . As an Advocate was pleading the Caufe of his Client before one of the Prætors , he could only pro- duce a fingle Witnefs in a Point where the Law re- quired the Teftimony of two ...
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... been , for fome Years laft paft , in the Cities of London and Weft- minster . Thus much for the profound Gentleman who honours me with the following Epistle . B 2 SIR , 6 · · 45 SIR , From my Cell , N ° 360 27 The SPECTATOR .
... been , for fome Years laft paft , in the Cities of London and Weft- minster . Thus much for the profound Gentleman who honours me with the following Epistle . B 2 SIR , 6 · · 45 SIR , From my Cell , N ° 360 27 The SPECTATOR .
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... honour me with a Vifit , I will compliment you with the firft opening of my Mouth , and if you pleafe you may make an entertaining Dialogue out of the Con- verfation of two dumb Men . Excufe this Trouble , worthy Sir , from one who has ...
... honour me with a Vifit , I will compliment you with the firft opening of my Mouth , and if you pleafe you may make an entertaining Dialogue out of the Con- verfation of two dumb Men . Excufe this Trouble , worthy Sir , from one who has ...
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Página 271 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Página 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 23 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Página 269 - 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 23 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Página 146 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Página 146 - I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular, and purposely receded from an established rule of the drama, when it has made way for a much higher beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been. Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and...
Página 45 - ... 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 which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded and disposed among softer lights than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Página 47 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
Página 22 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.