The Spectator, Volum 3W. Wilson, 1778 |
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Side 36
... hope you will not omit the mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philofophic refignati- on to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general , for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and ...
... hope you will not omit the mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philofophic refignati- on to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general , for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and ...
Side 42
... hope for no relief but from himself ; and yet he that has fenfe and juftice in every thing elfe , never reflects , that to come home only to fleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time he is there as if it were a punishment ...
... hope for no relief but from himself ; and yet he that has fenfe and juftice in every thing elfe , never reflects , that to come home only to fleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time he is there as if it were a punishment ...
Side 44
... hope that flesh and blood is capable of fo ftrict an allegiance , as that a fine woman muft go on to improve herself until fhe is as good and impaffive as an angel , only to pre- ferve a fidelity to a brute and a fatyr . The lady who ...
... hope that flesh and blood is capable of fo ftrict an allegiance , as that a fine woman muft go on to improve herself until fhe is as good and impaffive as an angel , only to pre- ferve a fidelity to a brute and a fatyr . The lady who ...
Side 45
... hope to find fomething folid , and full of deep reflection , is very often infenfibly betrayed into a fit of mirth . In a word , the reader fits down to my entertainment without knowing his bill of fare , and has therefore at leaft the ...
... hope to find fomething folid , and full of deep reflection , is very often infenfibly betrayed into a fit of mirth . In a word , the reader fits down to my entertainment without knowing his bill of fare , and has therefore at leaft the ...
Side 48
... hope you will oblige the world with fome reflections upon yawning , as I have seen it practifed on a twelfth - night among ⚫ other Christmas gambols at the house of a very wor- thy gentleman , who always entertains his tenants at that ...
... hope you will oblige the world with fome reflections upon yawning , as I have seen it practifed on a twelfth - night among ⚫ other Christmas gambols at the house of a very wor- thy gentleman , who always entertains his tenants at that ...
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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...