The Spectator, Volum 8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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Side 47
... Existence . But the widest of thefe our Spheres has its Circumference . When there- fore we reflect on the Divine Nature , we are so used and accustomed to this Imperfection in our felves , that we cannot forbear in fome meafure ...
... Existence . But the widest of thefe our Spheres has its Circumference . When there- fore we reflect on the Divine Nature , we are so used and accustomed to this Imperfection in our felves , that we cannot forbear in fome meafure ...
Side 64
... Existence ; or , in other Words , that his Omniscience and Omni- prefence are coexistent , and run together through the whole Infinitude of Space . This Confideration might furnish us with many Incentives to Devotion and Mc- tives to ...
... Existence ; or , in other Words , that his Omniscience and Omni- prefence are coexistent , and run together through the whole Infinitude of Space . This Confideration might furnish us with many Incentives to Devotion and Mc- tives to ...
Side 65
... Existence ; but he may leave this our Exiftence to it felf , with regard to its Happiness or Mi fery . For , in this Senfe , he may caft us away from his Prefence , and take his holy Spirit from us . This fingle Confideration one would ...
... Existence ; but he may leave this our Exiftence to it felf , with regard to its Happiness or Mi fery . For , in this Senfe , he may caft us away from his Prefence , and take his holy Spirit from us . This fingle Confideration one would ...
Side 129
... Existence to the Universe , and fo cannot be fup- pofed to want that which He communicated , without diminishing from the Plenitude of his own Power and Happiness . The Philofophers before mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay ...
... Existence to the Universe , and fo cannot be fup- pofed to want that which He communicated , without diminishing from the Plenitude of his own Power and Happiness . The Philofophers before mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay ...
Side 130
... existence , re- joicing in the various Degrees of Being and Happiness imparted to them . And as this is the true , the glorious : Character of the Deity , fo in forming a reasonable Crea- ture He would not , if poffible , fuffer his ...
... existence , re- joicing in the various Degrees of Being and Happiness imparted to them . And as this is the true , the glorious : Character of the Deity , fo in forming a reasonable Crea- ture He would not , if poffible , fuffer his ...
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Side 271 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Side 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Side 23 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Side 269 - 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 23 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Side 146 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Side 146 - I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular, and purposely receded from an established rule of the drama, when it has made way for a much higher beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been. Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and...
Side 45 - ... 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 which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded and disposed among softer lights than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Side 47 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
Side 22 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.