The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volum 8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... hand to be taken care of by me , I have quartered upon such as have taken new leases of me , and added so many advan- tages during the lives of the persons so quartered , that it is the interest of those whom they are 2 544 . SPECTATOR .
... hand to be taken care of by me , I have quartered upon such as have taken new leases of me , and added so many advan- tages during the lives of the persons so quartered , that it is the interest of those whom they are 2 544 . SPECTATOR .
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... hand that gave it . For my friendship is so entirely void of any gainful views , that it often gives me pain to think it should have been chargeable to him ; and I cannot at some melancholy hours help doing his generosity the injury of ...
... hand that gave it . For my friendship is so entirely void of any gainful views , that it often gives me pain to think it should have been chargeable to him ; and I cannot at some melancholy hours help doing his generosity the injury of ...
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... hand , ' & c . For the Benefit of the Poor . In charity to such as are troubled with the dis- ease of levee - hunting , and are forced to seek their bread every morning at the chamber - doors of great men , I , A. B. do testify , that ...
... hand , ' & c . For the Benefit of the Poor . In charity to such as are troubled with the dis- ease of levee - hunting , and are forced to seek their bread every morning at the chamber - doors of great men , I , A. B. do testify , that ...
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... hands of the invisible doctor . They were marked at the bottom Nathaniel Henroost , Alice Threadneedle , Rebecca Nettletop , Tom Loveless , Mary Meanwell , Thomas Smoaky , Anthony Freeman , Tom Meggot , Rustick Sprightly , & c . which ...
... hands of the invisible doctor . They were marked at the bottom Nathaniel Henroost , Alice Threadneedle , Rebecca Nettletop , Tom Loveless , Mary Meanwell , Thomas Smoaky , Anthony Freeman , Tom Meggot , Rustick Sprightly , & c . which ...
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... hands . 6 GOOD MR . SPECTATOR , ' NOTWITHSTANDING my friends at the club have always rallied me , when I have talked of retiring from business , and repeated to me one of my own sayings , that " a merchant has never enough until he has ...
... hands . 6 GOOD MR . SPECTATOR , ' NOTWITHSTANDING my friends at the club have always rallied me , when I have talked of retiring from business , and repeated to me one of my own sayings , that " a merchant has never enough until he has ...
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Side 367 - 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 215 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Side 106 - 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 182 - 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 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Side 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Side 75 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, •who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garment hovered in the wind.
Side 173 - 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 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Side 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.