The Spectator, Svazek 5George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... leave to Inscribe this Eighth and Last to You as to a Gentleman , who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company , You are now wholly retired from the busie part of Mankind , and at leisure to reflect upon your past ...
... leave to Inscribe this Eighth and Last to You as to a Gentleman , who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company , You are now wholly retired from the busie part of Mankind , and at leisure to reflect upon your past ...
Strana 2
... of an Author in saying some thing of my self . I shall therefore beg leave to add , that I have purposely omitted setting those Marks to - . 4 the } the End of every Paper , which appeared in 2 • THE SPECTATOR 4- ...
... of an Author in saying some thing of my self . I shall therefore beg leave to add , that I have purposely omitted setting those Marks to - . 4 the } the End of every Paper , which appeared in 2 • THE SPECTATOR 4- ...
Strana 9
... Leave to transcribe out of it two or three Sentences , as a proper Introduction to a very curious Letter , which I shall make the chief Entertainment of this Speculation . ' The old English Plainness and Sincerity , that generous ...
... Leave to transcribe out of it two or three Sentences , as a proper Introduction to a very curious Letter , which I shall make the chief Entertainment of this Speculation . ' The old English Plainness and Sincerity , that generous ...
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... leave Orders with her Porter , that if an elderly Gentleman , with a short Face , enquires for her , he shall be admitted and no Questions asked . ' As this particular Paper shall consist wholly of what I have received from my ...
... leave Orders with her Porter , that if an elderly Gentleman , with a short Face , enquires for her , he shall be admitted and no Questions asked . ' As this particular Paper shall consist wholly of what I have received from my ...
Strana 43
... leave this with my curious Reader , as some ingenious Writers do their Enigmas , and if any sagacious Person can fairly unriddle it , I will print his Explanation , and , if he pleases , acquaint the World with his Name , I hope this ...
... leave this with my curious Reader , as some ingenious Writers do their Enigmas , and if any sagacious Person can fairly unriddle it , I will print his Explanation , and , if he pleases , acquaint the World with his Name , I hope this ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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?
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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,...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.