The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... mean in that Generous Difre- gard of Popular Opinion , which you showed some Years ago , when you chofe for your Wife an obfcure young Woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient Family , but has cer- tainly A 4 tainly as many ...
... mean in that Generous Difre- gard of Popular Opinion , which you showed some Years ago , when you chofe for your Wife an obfcure young Woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient Family , but has cer- tainly A 4 tainly as many ...
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... mean ; and account themselves a ci- vilized People , because they speak one thing and mean ⚫ another : Truth they call Barbarity , and Falfhood Po- liteness . Upon my firft landing , one who was fent ⚫ from the King of this Place to ...
... mean ; and account themselves a ci- vilized People , because they speak one thing and mean ⚫ another : Truth they call Barbarity , and Falfhood Po- liteness . Upon my firft landing , one who was fent ⚫ from the King of this Place to ...
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... Means they are acquainted with all the Widow - hunters about Town , who often af- ford them great Diverfion . There is an honeft Irish Gentleman , it seems , who knows nothing of this Society , but at different Times has made Love to ...
... Means they are acquainted with all the Widow - hunters about Town , who often af- ford them great Diverfion . There is an honeft Irish Gentleman , it seems , who knows nothing of this Society , but at different Times has made Love to ...
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... mean the Authors of Memoirs , who are never mentioned in any Works but their own , and who raife all their Pro- ductions out of this fingle Figure of Speech . Most of our modern Prefaces favour very ftrongly of the Egotifm . Every ...
... mean the Authors of Memoirs , who are never mentioned in any Works but their own , and who raife all their Pro- ductions out of this fingle Figure of Speech . Most of our modern Prefaces favour very ftrongly of the Egotifm . Every ...
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... mean thofe empty conceited Fellows , who repeat as Sayings of their own , or fome of their particular Friends , feveral Jefts which were made before they were born , and which every one who has converfed in the World has heard an ...
... mean thofe empty conceited Fellows , who repeat as Sayings of their own , or fome of their particular Friends , feveral Jefts which were made before they were born , and which every one who has converfed in the World has heard an ...
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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.