The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr. preface, and explanatory notes, Volum 81823 |
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Side 2
... thing which has been said in these discourses of the Spectator and his works ; but the imputation of the grossest vanity would still dwell upon me if I did not give some account by what means I was enabled to keep up the spirit of so ...
... thing which has been said in these discourses of the Spectator and his works ; but the imputation of the grossest vanity would still dwell upon me if I did not give some account by what means I was enabled to keep up the spirit of so ...
Side 5
... things wherein we are outdone abroad , in other things we attribute to others a superiority which we ourselves possess . This is what is done , particularly in the art of portrait or face - painting . ' Painting is an art of a vast ...
... things wherein we are outdone abroad , in other things we attribute to others a superiority which we ourselves possess . This is what is done , particularly in the art of portrait or face - painting . ' Painting is an art of a vast ...
Side 14
... thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and false- hood politeness . Upon my first landing , one , who was sent from the king of this place to meet me , told me that he was extremely sorry for the storm I had met with just ...
... thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and false- hood politeness . Upon my first landing , one , who was sent from the king of this place to meet me , told me that he was extremely sorry for the storm I had met with just ...
Side 15
... thy officers of state to receive a hun- dred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is C 2 No. 557 . 15 SPECTATOR . account; but in less than a quarter of an ...
... thy officers of state to receive a hun- dred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is C 2 No. 557 . 15 SPECTATOR . account; but in less than a quarter of an ...
Side 16
Spectator The. negotiate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to them . When I go to see the king's scribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though perhaps I saw him go into his house ...
Spectator The. negotiate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to them . When I go to see the king's scribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though perhaps I saw him go into his house ...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr ..., Volum 1 Spectator The Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1823 |
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Side 116 - 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 310 - 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 125 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 310 - 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...
Side 49 - 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 158 - God's existence, by telling us that he comprehends infinite duration in every moment : that eternity is with him...
Side 45 - ... appeared one after another, until the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Side 310 - ... 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 103 - 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 213 - How slowly Time creeps, till my Phebe return, While amidst the soft Zephyr's cool breezes I burn ; Methinks, if I knew whereabouts he would tread, I could breathe on his wings, and 'twould melt down the lead. Fly swifter, ye minutes ! bring hither my dear ! And rest so much longer for't, when she is here. " Ah ! Colin ! old Time is full of delay ; Nor will budge one foot faster, for all thou canst say...