The Spectator. ...H. Hughs, 1789 |
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Side 13
... themselves a civilized people , because they speak one thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falfehood politenefs . Upon my firft land- ing , one , who was fent from the king of this place to meet me , told me ...
... themselves a civilized people , because they speak one thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falfehood politenefs . Upon my firft land- ing , one , who was fent from the king of this place to meet me , told me ...
Side 18
... themselves in a thousand chime- rical fhapes as her garment hovered in the wind . There was fomething wild and distracted in her looks . Her name was Fancy . She led up every mortal to the appointed place , after having very officioufly ...
... themselves in a thousand chime- rical fhapes as her garment hovered in the wind . There was fomething wild and distracted in her looks . Her name was Fancy . She led up every mortal to the appointed place , after having very officioufly ...
Side 19
... themselves of a tawny fkin . There were very great heaps of red nofes , large lips , and rufty teeth . The truth of it is , I was furprised to fee the greatest part of the Mountain made up of bodily deformities . Obferving one advancing ...
... themselves of a tawny fkin . There were very great heaps of red nofes , large lips , and rufty teeth . The truth of it is , I was furprised to fee the greatest part of the Mountain made up of bodily deformities . Obferving one advancing ...
Side 22
... themselves in bartering for features : one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a fhort waist for a pair of round shoulders , and a third cheapening a bad face for a loft reputation : but on all ...
... themselves in bartering for features : one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a fhort waist for a pair of round shoulders , and a third cheapening a bad face for a loft reputation : but on all ...
Side 31
... themselves the Widow - CLUB . This Club confifts of nine experienced dames , who take their places once a week round a large oval table . " 6 . I. Mrs. President is a person who has dif- ' pofed of fix Hufbands , and is now determined ...
... themselves the Widow - CLUB . This Club confifts of nine experienced dames , who take their places once a week round a large oval table . " 6 . I. Mrs. President is a person who has dif- ' pofed of fix Hufbands , and is now determined ...
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ADDISON affured afked againſt anfwer beautiful becauſe cafe confider confideration converfation creature defign defire difcourfe diſcover eternity exiftence exiſtence faid fame fatire fatisfaction fays fecond fecret feems felf fenfe fent fervant ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fleep fome fomething foon foul fpeaking fpecies ftanding ftate ftill fubject fuch fuppofed fure gentleman greateſt hand happineſs hath heart himſelf honour huſband inftance itſelf JOHN BYROM juft lady laft laſt lefs letter look miferable mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion ourſelves OVID paffed paffion Paper perfon philofopher pleafed pleaſed pleaſure prefent promife publiſhed purpoſe reader reafon rife ſeveral ſhall Shalum ſhe ſpeak SPECT SPECTATOR ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe Thomas Tickell thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſe VIRG virtue Wedneſday whofe whole wife
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Side 137 - 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 56 - 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 371 - ... 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 371 - 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 198 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Side 55 - His substance is within the substance of every being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Side 57 - ... regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion ; for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...
Side 25 - Commodious manner, he marched off 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.
Side 54 - ... 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 104 - I am got into quotations, give me leave to add the saying of an old philosopher, who, after having invited some of his friends to dine with him, was ruffled by his wife that came into the room in a passion, and threw down the table that stood before them; ' every one,' says he, ' has his calamity, and he is a happy man that has no greater than this.