The Spectator, Volum 5George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... Country Life , as it ever did in the Gallantries of the Town : and that you now take as much pleasure in the Planting of young Trees , as you did formerly in the Cutting down of your old ones . In short , we hear from all Hands that You ...
... Country Life , as it ever did in the Gallantries of the Town : and that you now take as much pleasure in the Planting of young Trees , as you did formerly in the Cutting down of your old ones . In short , we hear from all Hands that You ...
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... Country , and make a Shift to keep themselves from starving , by taking into their Care the Properties of all their Fellow - Subjects , As these Politicians of both Sides have already worked the Nation into a most unnatural Ferment , I ...
... Country , and make a Shift to keep themselves from starving , by taking into their Care the Properties of all their Fellow - Subjects , As these Politicians of both Sides have already worked the Nation into a most unnatural Ferment , I ...
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... Country ; but I quickly found that he was as treacherous as the rest of his Countrymen , At my first going to Court , one of the great Men almost put me out of Countenance , by asking ten thou sand Pardons of me for only treading by ...
... Country ; but I quickly found that he was as treacherous as the rest of his Countrymen , At my first going to Court , one of the great Men almost put me out of Countenance , by asking ten thou sand Pardons of me for only treading by ...
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... Country many Years under the Title of the dumb Doctor , I shall now prophesie by Word of Mouth , and ( as Mr. Lee says of the Magpie , who you know was a great Fortune - teller among the Ancients ) chatter Futurity , I have hitherto ...
... Country many Years under the Title of the dumb Doctor , I shall now prophesie by Word of Mouth , and ( as Mr. Lee says of the Magpie , who you know was a great Fortune - teller among the Ancients ) chatter Futurity , I have hitherto ...
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... Country , that he did it to pass away some of his idle Hours , that it was published at the Impor tunity of Friends , or that his natural Temper , Studies or Conversations , directed him to the Choice of his Subject , Id populus curat ...
... Country , that he did it to pass away some of his idle Hours , that it was published at the Impor tunity of Friends , or that his natural Temper , Studies or Conversations , directed him to the Choice of his Subject , Id populus curat ...
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Side 237 - 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 38 - 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 79 - 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 121 - Existence, by telling us, That he comprehends infinite Duration in every Moment; That Eternity is with him a Punctual stans, a fixed Point ; or, which is as good Sense, an Infinite Instant?
Side 79 - I write (whether I consist of all the same substance, material or immaterial, or no) that I was yesterday; for as to this point of being the same self, it matters not whether this present self be made up of the same or other substances...
Side 13 - ... and distracted in her looks. Her name was Fancy. She led up every mortal to the appointed place, after having very officiously assisted him in making up his pack, and laying it upon his shoulders.
Side 36 - ... circumference to one creature than another, according as we rise one above another in the scale of existence. But the widest of these our spheres has its circumference. When therefore we reflect on the Divine Nature, we are so used and accustomed to this imperfection in ourselves, that we cannot forbear, in some measure, ascribing it to Him in whom there is no shadow of imperfection. Our reason indeed assures us, that his attributes are infinite ; but the poorness of our conceptions is such,...
Side 238 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 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 48 - Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Side 16 - ... of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation on every other misfortune or calamity which every one in the assembty brought upon himself in lieu of what he had parted with.