The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volumen5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... king in his dreams , and a beggar awake , and dreamt as consequentially , and in as continued unbroken schemes as he thinks when awake , whether he would be in reality a king or a beggar , or rather whether he would not be both ? There ...
... king in his dreams , and a beggar awake , and dreamt as consequentially , and in as continued unbroken schemes as he thinks when awake , whether he would be in reality a king or a beggar , or rather whether he would not be both ? There ...
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... - able , if we consider the frequent apostacies of this peo- ple , when they lived under their kings in the Land of Promise , and within sight of their temple . If in the next place we examine , what may 18 No. 495 SPECTATOR .
... - able , if we consider the frequent apostacies of this peo- ple , when they lived under their kings in the Land of Promise , and within sight of their temple . If in the next place we examine , what may 18 No. 495 SPECTATOR .
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... king and priest . All great governments are nothing else but clusters of these little private royalties , and therefore I consider the masters of families as small deputy - governors presiding over the several little parcels and ...
... king and priest . All great governments are nothing else but clusters of these little private royalties , and therefore I consider the masters of families as small deputy - governors presiding over the several little parcels and ...
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... kings in fables . To omit many which will occur to every one's memory , there is a pretty instance of this nature in a Turkish tale , which I do not like the worse for that little oriental extravagance which is mix- ed with it . We are ...
... kings in fables . To omit many which will occur to every one's memory , there is a pretty instance of this nature in a Turkish tale , which I do not like the worse for that little oriental extravagance which is mix- ed with it . We are ...
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... king , and - always a king . ' For this reason it would be thought very absurd in Mr. Bullock , notwithstanding the height and gracefulness of his person , to sit at the right - hand of a hero , though he were but five - foot high . The ...
... king , and - always a king . ' For this reason it would be thought very absurd in Mr. Bullock , notwithstanding the height and gracefulness of his person , to sit at the right - hand of a hero , though he were but five - foot high . The ...
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Página 159 - 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 124 - 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 364 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not, It ought not to be sported with.
Página 11 - 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 wit's end.
Página 46 - ... lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life ; but this only proved a light'ning before death. He has bequeathed to this lady, as a token of his love, a great...
Página 121 - I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened...
Página 108 - I saw , with unspeakable pleasure , the whole species thus delivered from its sorrows: though at the same time , as we stood round the heap , and surveyed the several materials of which it was composed , there was...
Página 142 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...
Página 106 - 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 center 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.
Página 251 - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.