The Spectator, Volum 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Side 24
... author , among many mystical pas- sages , has the following one : " The absence of the sun is not the cause of night , forasmuch as his light is so great that it may illuminate the earth all 24 No. 582 . THE SPECTATOR .
... author , among many mystical pas- sages , has the following one : " The absence of the sun is not the cause of night , forasmuch as his light is so great that it may illuminate the earth all 24 No. 582 . THE SPECTATOR .
Side 25
... night is brought on , and which do ray out darkness and ob- scurity upon the earth as the sun does light . " I consider writers in the same view this sage as- trologer does the heavenly bodies . Some of them are stars that scatter light ...
... night is brought on , and which do ray out darkness and ob- scurity upon the earth as the sun does light . " I consider writers in the same view this sage as- trologer does the heavenly bodies . Some of them are stars that scatter light ...
Side 39
... night before they slept they should examine what they had been doing that day , and so discover what actions were worthy of pursuit to - morrow , and what little vices were to be prevented from slipping unawares into a habit . If I ...
... night before they slept they should examine what they had been doing that day , and so discover what actions were worthy of pursuit to - morrow , and what little vices were to be prevented from slipping unawares into a habit . If I ...
Side 40
... night or two's time I make most noble returns for it ; which , though my benefactor is not a whit the better for , yet it pleases me to think that it was from a principle of gratitude in me , that my mind was susceptible of such gene ...
... night or two's time I make most noble returns for it ; which , though my benefactor is not a whit the better for , yet it pleases me to think that it was from a principle of gratitude in me , that my mind was susceptible of such gene ...
Side 41
... night long or suppose he should see his dearest friends remain all night in great dis- tresses , which he could instantly have disengaged them . from , could he have been content to have gone to bed without the other bottle ; believe me ...
... night long or suppose he should see his dearest friends remain all night in great dis- tresses , which he could instantly have disengaged them . from , could he have been content to have gone to bed without the other bottle ; believe me ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
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Side 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 17 - 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.
Side 217 - ... 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.
Side 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Side 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Side 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Side 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Side 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Side 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.