The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr. preface, and explanatory notes, Volum 81823 |
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... thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing . I remember , when I finished The Tender Husband , I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished , as that we might some time or other publish a work ...
... thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing . I remember , when I finished The Tender Husband , I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished , as that we might some time or other publish a work ...
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... thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are al ...
... thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are al ...
Side 21
... did not discover what he thought pleasures of life , and wondered how the owners of them ever came to look upon them as burdens and grievances , As we were regarding very attentively this con- fusion of N ° 559 . 21 SPECTATOR .
... did not discover what he thought pleasures of life , and wondered how the owners of them ever came to look upon them as burdens and grievances , As we were regarding very attentively this con- fusion of N ° 559 . 21 SPECTATOR .
Side 24
... thought very remark- able , the whole heap sunk to such a degree , that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before . She afterwards returned every man his own proper calamity , and , teaching him how to bear it in the most ...
... thought very remark- able , the whole heap sunk to such a degree , that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before . She afterwards returned every man his own proper calamity , and , teaching him how to bear it in the most ...
Side 25
... thoughts of fol- lowing your example , that I may be a fortune - teller properly speaking . I am grown weary of my taci- turnity , and having served my country many years under the title of " the dumb doctor , " I shall now prophesy by ...
... thoughts of fol- lowing your example , that I may be a fortune - teller properly speaking . I am grown weary of my taci- turnity , and having served my country many years under the title of " the dumb doctor , " I shall now prophesy by ...
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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...