The Spectator, Volum 3W. Wilson, 1778 |
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Side 14
... carry the humour fo far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fond- ness of a lover , and are then fure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the ...
... carry the humour fo far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fond- ness of a lover , and are then fure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the ...
Side 18
... carried away by mere beauty , or mere wit , Omniainante , with all her vice , will bear away as much of our good - will as the moft in- nocent virgin or difcreeteft matron ; and there cannot be a more abject flavery in this world than ...
... carried away by mere beauty , or mere wit , Omniainante , with all her vice , will bear away as much of our good - will as the moft in- nocent virgin or difcreeteft matron ; and there cannot be a more abject flavery in this world than ...
Side 21
... carry ten ftone weight , if fourteen hands high ; if above or under to carry or be allowed weight for inches , and to be entered Friday the fifth at the Swan in Cole's - hill , before fix in the evening . Alfo a plate of lefs value to ...
... carry ten ftone weight , if fourteen hands high ; if above or under to carry or be allowed weight for inches , and to be entered Friday the fifth at the Swan in Cole's - hill , before fix in the evening . Alfo a plate of lefs value to ...
Side 22
... carry for its pofy the old motto inverted , Detur tetriori . Or to accommodate it to the capacity of the combatants , The frightfull'ft grinner Be the winner . In the mean while I would advise a Dutch painter to be prefent at this great ...
... carry for its pofy the old motto inverted , Detur tetriori . Or to accommodate it to the capacity of the combatants , The frightfull'ft grinner Be the winner . In the mean while I would advise a Dutch painter to be prefent at this great ...
Side 23
... carry away the honour of the day ; but upon a farther trial they found he was mafter only of the merry grin . The next that mounted the table was a malecontent in those days , and a great mafter in the whole art of grin- ning , but ...
... carry away the honour of the day ; but upon a farther trial they found he was mafter only of the merry grin . The next that mounted the table was a malecontent in those days , and a great mafter in the whole art of grin- ning , but ...
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Side 68 - I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly; and I believe he will often find, that what he calls a zeal for his religion, is either pride, interest, or ill-nature.
Side 183 - ... human figure ; sometimes we see the man appearing distinctly in all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings.
Side 197 - This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach ; We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour : How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints...
Side 218 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
Side 207 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Side 41 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep...
Side 213 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others ; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Side 89 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
Side 104 - It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger, had not he prevented him...
Side 213 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...