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Side 14
... sense commence coxcombs , than beautiful women become immodest . When this happens in either , the favour we are naturally inclined to give to the good qualities they have from nature , should abate in proportion . But however just it ...
... sense commence coxcombs , than beautiful women become immodest . When this happens in either , the favour we are naturally inclined to give to the good qualities they have from nature , should abate in proportion . But however just it ...
Side 33
... sense as ' yourself . I repeat to her , indeed you are pretty . Upon this there is no patience ; she will throw down any thing about her , stamp and pull off her head- clothes . Fy , my dear , says I ; how can a woman of your sense fall ...
... sense as ' yourself . I repeat to her , indeed you are pretty . Upon this there is no patience ; she will throw down any thing about her , stamp and pull off her head- clothes . Fy , my dear , says I ; how can a woman of your sense fall ...
Side 35
... sense of others ills escape , Is but a brute at best , in human shape . TATE . IN one of my last week's papers I treated of good nature , as it is the effect of constitution ; I shall now speak of it as it is a moral virtue . The first ...
... sense of others ills escape , Is but a brute at best , in human shape . TATE . IN one of my last week's papers I treated of good nature , as it is the effect of constitution ; I shall now speak of it as it is a moral virtue . The first ...
Side 39
me . I cannot recollect the words , but the sense of it is to this purpose ; what I spent I lost ; what I possessed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . Since I am thus insensibly engaged in sacred writ , I cannot ...
me . I cannot recollect the words , but the sense of it is to this purpose ; what I spent I lost ; what I possessed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . Since I am thus insensibly engaged in sacred writ , I cannot ...
Side 41
... and yet he that hath sense and justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to ' sleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time ( he is there as if it were a punishment , THE SPECTATOR . 41.
... and yet he that hath sense and justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to ' sleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time ( he is there as if it were a punishment , THE SPECTATOR . 41.
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acquainted actions admiration agreeable Alcibiades appear Atheist AULUS GELLIUS beautiful behaviour Castilian cern character consider conversation creature desire discourse endeavour entertainment esteem eyes father favour female fortune gentleman give grin happy heart Herod HESIOD honour Hudibras human humble servant humour husband Hyæna imagination innocent Ionian sea jealous jealousy kind lady leap letter live look lover Lover's Leap mankind manner Mariamne Mark Antony matter means ment merit mind nature never obliged observe occasion October 31 opinion OVID pain paper particular passion person Plato pleased pleasure Plutarch poor pray present pretend Pyrrhus racter reader reason received religion renegado Salamander Sappho secret sense shew Socrates soul species Spectator speculation spirit tell temper ther thing thought tion town ture turn vicious VIRG virtue virtuous whole wife woman women word write young
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Side 35 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 343 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Side 35 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Side 242 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare.
Side 35 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; (What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? and did not One fashion us in the womb...
Side 343 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Side 36 - If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him : 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Side 112 - Cornaro, who was the author of the little treatise I am mentioning, was of an infirm constitution, till about forty, when by obstinately persisting in an exact course of temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health ; insomuch that at fourscore he published his book, which has been translated into English under the title of ' Sure and certain Methods of attaining a long and healthy Life.
Side 240 - ... such a manner, that if he became his enemy, it should not be in his power to hurt him. The first part of this rule, which regards our behaviour towards an enemy, is indeed very reasonable, as well as very prudential ; but the latter part of it, which regards our behaviour towards a friend, savours...
Side 228 - Was everything 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. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...