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... tion this particular , in order to introduce , in my next paper , a history which I have found among the ac- counts of China , and which may be looked upon as an antediluvian novel . ( a ) No. 584 . MONDAY , August 23 , 1714 . 30 No ...
... tion this particular , in order to introduce , in my next paper , a history which I have found among the ac- counts of China , and which may be looked upon as an antediluvian novel . ( a ) No. 584 . MONDAY , August 23 , 1714 . 30 No ...
Side 33
... tion . The habitations of Shalum looked every year more beautiful in the eyes of Hilpa , who , after the space of seventy autumns , was wonderfully pleased with the distant prospect of Shalum's hills , which were then covered with ...
... tion . The habitations of Shalum looked every year more beautiful in the eyes of Hilpa , who , after the space of seventy autumns , was wonderfully pleased with the distant prospect of Shalum's hills , which were then covered with ...
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... tion he has believed himself to be in was real . Such a scrutiny into the actions of his fancy must be of considerable advantage ; for this reason , because the circumstances which a man imagines himself in during sleep are generally ...
... tion he has believed himself to be in was real . Such a scrutiny into the actions of his fancy must be of considerable advantage ; for this reason , because the circumstances which a man imagines himself in during sleep are generally ...
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... ends of self - love equally answered . The conscience of approving e's self a benefactor to mankind , is the noblest re- e doubtless it is and the most own advantage ; notwithstanding which , the inclina tion is - 588 . 51 THE SPECTATOR .
... ends of self - love equally answered . The conscience of approving e's self a benefactor to mankind , is the noblest re- e doubtless it is and the most own advantage ; notwithstanding which , the inclina tion is - 588 . 51 THE SPECTATOR .
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Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele. own advantage ; notwithstanding which , the inclina tion is nevertheless unselfish . The pleasure which attends the gratification of our hunger and thirst , is not the cause of these appetites ; they ...
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele. own advantage ; notwithstanding which , the inclina tion is nevertheless unselfish . The pleasure which attends the gratification of our hunger and thirst , is not the cause of these appetites ; they ...
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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.