The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Side 29
... Actions only as an impartial Spectator , without any Regard to them as they happen to advance or cross my own private Interet . But while I am thus employed- my felf , I cannot help obferving , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to be ...
... Actions only as an impartial Spectator , without any Regard to them as they happen to advance or cross my own private Interet . But while I am thus employed- my felf , I cannot help obferving , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to be ...
Side 30
... have two Souls . When the good Soul rules , I undertake noble and virtuous Actions ; but when the bad Soul predominates , I am forced to do Evil . All I can fay at t at prefent is , that I find my good Soul 30 The SPECTATOR.
... have two Souls . When the good Soul rules , I undertake noble and virtuous Actions ; but when the bad Soul predominates , I am forced to do Evil . All I can fay at t at prefent is , that I find my good Soul 30 The SPECTATOR.
Side 31
... Actions . If on the one Hand , we fairly weighed every Circum- ftance , we should frequently find them obliged to do that Action we at first Sight condemn , in order to avoid another we should have been much more displeased with . If on ...
... Actions . If on the one Hand , we fairly weighed every Circum- ftance , we should frequently find them obliged to do that Action we at first Sight condemn , in order to avoid another we should have been much more displeased with . If on ...
Side 32
... Actions . The Spartan Commonwealth was indeed won- derfully exact in this Particular ; and I do not remem- ber in ... Action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief Magiftrates , decreed he should be prefented ...
... Actions . The Spartan Commonwealth was indeed won- derfully exact in this Particular ; and I do not remem- ber in ... Action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief Magiftrates , decreed he should be prefented ...
Side 36
... Actions of a few Objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their Knowledge and Obfer- vation turns within a very narrow Circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every I hing in which he refides , infinite Space gives Room ...
... Actions of a few Objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their Knowledge and Obfer- vation turns within a very narrow Circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every I hing in which he refides , infinite Space gives Room ...
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Side 259 - ... 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.
Side 37 - 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.
Side 11 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Side 11 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Side 67 - to the sun, and water to the diamond. It irradiates every metal, and enriches lead with all the properties of gold. It heightens smoke into flame, flame into light, and light into glory.
Side 53 - We may assure ourselves that the great Author of nature will not always be as one who is indifferent to any of his creatures.
Side 134 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Side 10 - I saw multitudes of old women throw down their wrinkles, and several young ones who stripped themselves of a tawny skin.
Side 71 - We make provisions for this life, as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life, as though it were never to have a beginning. Should a spirit of superior rank, who is a stranger to human nature, accidentally alight upon the earth, and take a survey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us...
Side 10 - 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 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.