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Side 4
... acquainted with your Virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment you upon your Birth , Perfon , or Fortune ; nor any other the like Perfections , which You poffefs whether You will or no : But fhall only touch upon thofe , which ...
... acquainted with your Virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment you upon your Birth , Perfon , or Fortune ; nor any other the like Perfections , which You poffefs whether You will or no : But fhall only touch upon thofe , which ...
Side 11
... acquaint the World with their Names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to in- form the Reader , that no other Papers , which have appeared under the Title of Spectator , fince the clofing of this Eighth Volume , were written by any of ...
... acquaint the World with their Names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to in- form the Reader , that no other Papers , which have appeared under the Title of Spectator , fince the clofing of this Eighth Volume , were written by any of ...
Side 13
... acquainted the World with my Defign of electing a new Club , and of opening my Mouth in it after a most folemn Manner . Both the Election and the Ceremony are now paft ; but not finding it fo eafy , as I at first imagined , to break ...
... acquainted the World with my Defign of electing a new Club , and of opening my Mouth in it after a most folemn Manner . Both the Election and the Ceremony are now paft ; but not finding it fo eafy , as I at first imagined , to break ...
Side 14
... acquainted with my own Voice , I laid hold of all Opportunities to exert it . Not caring however to fpeak much by my felf , and to draw upon me the whole Attention of those I converfed with , I used , for fome time , to walk every ...
... acquainted with my own Voice , I laid hold of all Opportunities to exert it . Not caring however to fpeak much by my felf , and to draw upon me the whole Attention of those I converfed with , I used , for fome time , to walk every ...
Side 15
... Acquaintance fcarce know me ; nay I was asked the other Day by a Jew at Jonathan's , whether I was not related to a dumb Gentleman , who used to come to that Coffee - houfe ? But I think I never was better pleafed in my Life than about ...
... Acquaintance fcarce know me ; nay I was asked the other Day by a Jew at Jonathan's , whether I was not related to a dumb Gentleman , who used to come to that Coffee - houfe ? But I think I never was better pleafed in my Life than about ...
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Side 271 - ... 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 104 - 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 48 - ... In the second place, he is Omniscient as well as Omnipresent. His Omniscience indeed necessarily and naturally flows from his Omnipresence ; he cannot but be conscious of every motion that arises in the whole material world, which he thus essentially pervades...
Side 49 - ... 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 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 22 - I saw multitudes of old women throw down their wrinkles, and several young ones who stripped themselves of a tawny skin.
Side 22 - 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.
Side 297 - Creator, and with slow and painful steps creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall ere long shoot away with the swiftness of imagination, trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations, be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career, be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds...
Side 83 - Would not he think that we are a species of beings made for quite different ends and purposes than what we really are ? Must not he imagine that we were placed in this world to get riches and honours ? Would...
Side 26 - I stuck my cane in the ground, and told him I would lay him a bottle of wine that he did not march up to it on a line that I drew for him in a quarter of an hour.