The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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Side 17
... consideration than the expectation of scenes of dalliance , and thought of her ( as I said before ) only as she was ... considerations of duty , honour , and friendship , which are in the highest degree engaged in this alliance , there ...
... consideration than the expectation of scenes of dalliance , and thought of her ( as I said before ) only as she was ... considerations of duty , honour , and friendship , which are in the highest degree engaged in this alliance , there ...
Side 23
... consideration ; for the lackeys were never so saucy and prag- matical as they are now a - days , and that he should be glad to see them taken down in the treaty of peace , if it might be done without prejudice to the public affairs ...
... consideration ; for the lackeys were never so saucy and prag- matical as they are now a - days , and that he should be glad to see them taken down in the treaty of peace , if it might be done without prejudice to the public affairs ...
Side 28
... to their respective merits . The folly of ascribing temporal judgments to any particular crimes , may appear from several considerations . I shall only mention two . First , that , generally speaking , 28 [ No. 483 . THE SPECTATOR .
... to their respective merits . The folly of ascribing temporal judgments to any particular crimes , may appear from several considerations . I shall only mention two . First , that , generally speaking , 28 [ No. 483 . THE SPECTATOR .
Side 29
... consideration , that may check our presumption in put- ting such a construction upon a misfortune , is this , that it is im- possible for us to know what are calamities , and what are blessings . How many accidents have passed for ...
... consideration , that may check our presumption in put- ting such a construction upon a misfortune , is this , that it is im- possible for us to know what are calamities , and what are blessings . How many accidents have passed for ...
Side 41
... consideration that intimates to us a natural grandeur and perfection in the soul , which is rather to be admired than explained . I must not omit that argument for the excellency of the soul , which I have seen quoted out of Tertullian ...
... consideration that intimates to us a natural grandeur and perfection in the soul , which is rather to be admired than explained . I must not omit that argument for the excellency of the soul , which I have seen quoted out of Tertullian ...
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Side 189 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 426 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Side 36 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Side 296 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Side 114 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead. He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Side 427 - ... 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 189 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Side 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Side 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Side 304 - 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.