The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volumen5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... species , I am very glad to find that those who approve my conduct in this particular , are much more numerous than those who condemn it . A large family of daugh- ters have drawn me up a very handsome remonstrance , in which they set ...
... species , I am very glad to find that those who approve my conduct in this particular , are much more numerous than those who condemn it . A large family of daugh- ters have drawn me up a very handsome remonstrance , in which they set ...
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... species , to my country , and to my reli- gion , in having produced such a number of reasonable creatures , citizens , and christians . I am pleased to see myself thus perpetuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a ...
... species , to my country , and to my reli- gion , in having produced such a number of reasonable creatures , citizens , and christians . I am pleased to see myself thus perpetuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a ...
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... species , and to make the greatest persons in the government the most graceful . But this I shall leave to thy judicious pen . " I have another story to tell thee , which I likewise met in a book . It seems the general of the Tartars ...
... species , and to make the greatest persons in the government the most graceful . But this I shall leave to thy judicious pen . " I have another story to tell thee , which I likewise met in a book . It seems the general of the Tartars ...
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... species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of several rocks , and immedi- ately die upon their being severed from the place where they grow . There are many other creatures but one ...
... species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of several rocks , and immedi- ately die upon their being severed from the place where they grow . There are many other creatures but one ...
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... species to another , are almost insensible . The intermediate space is so well husbanded and managed , that there is scarce a degree of perception which does not appear in some one part of the world of life . Is the goodness or wisdom ...
... species to another , are almost insensible . The intermediate space is so well husbanded and managed , that there is scarce a degree of perception which does not appear in some one part of the world of life . Is the goodness or wisdom ...
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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.