The Spectator, Svazek 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Strana 3
... mankind , and at leisure to re- upon your past achievements ; for reason I look upon you as a person well qualified for a dedication . nay possibly disappoint my readers , 1 Sir , I shall not compliment you upon your birth ...
... mankind , and at leisure to re- upon your past achievements ; for reason I look upon you as a person well qualified for a dedication . nay possibly disappoint my readers , 1 Sir , I shall not compliment you upon your birth ...
Strana 15
... mankind . Vith how much skill must the throne of God be ed ? With what glorious designs is that habita- beautified , which is contrived and built by him nspired Hiram with wisdom ? How great must e majesty of that place , where the ...
... mankind . Vith how much skill must the throne of God be ed ? With what glorious designs is that habita- beautified , which is contrived and built by him nspired Hiram with wisdom ? How great must e majesty of that place , where the ...
Strana 24
... mankind , should prove detrimental to us , and that it should be made use of to scatter prejudice and igno- rance through a people instead of conveying to them truth and knowledge . I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise ...
... mankind , should prove detrimental to us , and that it should be made use of to scatter prejudice and igno- rance through a people instead of conveying to them truth and knowledge . I was lately reading a very whimsical treatise ...
Strana 28
... mankind . Most people are of the humor of an old fellow of a college , who , when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might re- dound to the good of their successors , grew very peevish : " We are always doing ...
... mankind . Most people are of the humor of an old fellow of a college , who , when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might re- dound to the good of their successors , grew very peevish : " We are always doing ...
Strana 29
... mankind . There is one consideration , which may very much enforce what I have here said . Many honest minds , that are naturally disposed to do good in the world , and become beneficial to mankind , complain within themselves that they ...
... mankind . There is one consideration , which may very much enforce what I have here said . Many honest minds , that are naturally disposed to do good in the world , and become beneficial to mankind , complain within themselves that they ...
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Strana 215 - 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.
Strana 17 - 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.
Strana 217 - ... 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.
Strana 215 - It must be so — 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Strana 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Strana 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Strana 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Strana 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Strana 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Strana 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.