The Spectator, Svazek 5George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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Strana 2
... Thought of Mis chief to any others of the Sex , I know You had formerly a very great Contempt for that Pedantick Race of Mortals who call themselves Philosophers ; and yet , to your Honour be it spoken , there is not a Sage of them all ...
... Thought of Mis chief to any others of the Sex , I know You had formerly a very great Contempt for that Pedantick Race of Mortals who call themselves Philosophers ; and yet , to your Honour be it spoken , there is not a Sage of them all ...
Strana 12
... Thought of Socrates , that if all the Misfortunes of Mankind were cast into a publick Stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole Species , those who now think themselves the most un happy , would prefer the Share they ...
... Thought of Socrates , that if all the Misfortunes of Mankind were cast into a publick Stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole Species , those who now think themselves the most un happy , would prefer the Share they ...
Strana 15
... thought Pleasures and Blessings of Life ; and wonder'd how the Owners of them ever came to look upon them as Burthens and Grievances , As we were regarding very attentively this Confusion of Miseries , this Chaos of Calamity , Jupiter ...
... thought Pleasures and Blessings of Life ; and wonder'd how the Owners of them ever came to look upon them as Burthens and Grievances , As we were regarding very attentively this Confusion of Miseries , this Chaos of Calamity , Jupiter ...
Strana 17
... thought very remarkable , the whole Heap sunk to such a Degree , that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before . She afterwards returned every Man his own proper Calamity , and teaching him how to bear it in the most ...
... thought very remarkable , the whole Heap sunk to such a Degree , that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before . She afterwards returned every Man his own proper Calamity , and teaching him how to bear it in the most ...
Strana 18
... Thoughts of following your Example , that I may be a Fortune - teller properly speak ing . I am grown weary of my Taciturnity , and having served my Country many Years under the Title of the dumb Doctor , I shall now prophesie by Word ...
... Thoughts of following your Example , that I may be a Fortune - teller properly speak ing . I am grown weary of my Taciturnity , and having served my Country many Years under the Title of the dumb Doctor , I shall now prophesie by Word ...
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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.