The Spectator, Volumen8Tonson, 1739 |
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... most celebrated Per- fons of the Age , I take leave to Infcribe this Eighth and Laft to You , as to a Gentleman who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company . A 2 You ▻ You are now wholly retired from the bufy Part ΤΟ ...
... most celebrated Per- fons of the Age , I take leave to Infcribe this Eighth and Laft to You , as to a Gentleman who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company . A 2 You ▻ You are now wholly retired from the bufy Part ΤΟ ...
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... most polite part of the Male World , and the Love of the greatest Beauties in the Female ) are intirely to be ascribed to your own perfo- nal Genius and Application . You are formed for thefe Ac- complishments by a happy Turn of Nature ...
... most polite part of the Male World , and the Love of the greatest Beauties in the Female ) are intirely to be ascribed to your own perfo- nal Genius and Application . You are formed for thefe Ac- complishments by a happy Turn of Nature ...
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... most important Points of Life : I mean in that Generous Dif - regard of Popular Opinion , which you fhowed fome Years ago , when you chofe for your Wife an obfcure young Woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient Family , but has ...
... most important Points of Life : I mean in that Generous Dif - regard of Popular Opinion , which you fhowed fome Years ago , when you chofe for your Wife an obfcure young Woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient Family , but has ...
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... most folemn Manner . Both the Election and the Ceremony are now paft ; but not finding it fo eafy , as I at first imagined , to break thro ' a Fifty Years Silence , I would not venture into the World under the Character of a Man who ...
... most folemn Manner . Both the Election and the Ceremony are now paft ; but not finding it fo eafy , as I at first imagined , to break thro ' a Fifty Years Silence , I would not venture into the World under the Character of a Man who ...
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... most impudent Socinian for Half an Hour , who has been an Orthodox Divine all his Life after . I have taken the fame Method to accomplish my felf in the Gift of Ut- terance , having talked above a Twelve - month , not fo much for the ...
... most impudent Socinian for Half an Hour , who has been an Orthodox Divine all his Life after . I have taken the fame Method to accomplish my felf in the Gift of Ut- terance , having talked above a Twelve - month , not fo much for the ...
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Página 271 - ... 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 104 - 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 48 - ... In the second place, he is Omniscient as well as Omnipresent. His Omniscience indeed necessarily and naturally flows from his Omnipresence ; he cannot but be conscious of every motion that arises in the whole material world, which he thus essentially pervades...
Página 49 - ... regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion ; for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...
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 22 - I saw multitudes of old women throw down their wrinkles, and several young ones who stripped themselves of a tawny skin.
Página 22 - 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.
Página 297 - Creator, and with slow and painful steps creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall ere long shoot away with the swiftness of imagination, trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations, be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career, be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds...
Página 83 - Would not he think that we are a species of beings made for quite different ends and purposes than what we really are ? Must not he imagine that we were placed in this world to get riches and honours ? Would...
Página 26 - I stuck my cane in the ground, and told him I would lay him a bottle of wine that he did not march up to it on a line that I drew for him in a quarter of an hour.